Services For Education Limited

Registered charity 1148848 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRMINGHAM MUSIC SERVICE, S4E LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES SERVICE, S4E LIMITED, S4E MUSIC SERVICE, S4E SCHOOL SUPPORT SERVICE, SERVICES FOR EDUCATION

Delivery of music, health and education, and learning and assessmemt services

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF HIGH QUALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING; 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CARE, SAFETY AND UPBRINGING OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE BY:(A) SUPPORTING AND ASSISTING THOSE IN NEED, THEIR FAMILIES AND CARERS; (B) PROMOTING THEIR HEALTH; (C) ADVANCING THEIR EDUCATION; 3. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE, PARTICULARLY THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND TEACHING OF MUSIC.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £135,829 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with unrestricted funds carried forward totaling £2,955,692. Per the trustees' report, these unrestricted reserves are deemed sufficient to cover the stated policy target of six months' staff costs, which amounted to £2,781,714. The charity maintains a cash balance of £3,541,635 and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cooper Parry Group Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Services For Education Limited (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sharon Bell — Chief Executive (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Chirag Mistry
• David Bolton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Enid Jory Debenham
• Dr Peter Borg-Bartolo MRCS, LRCP
• Dr Taiwo Daniel Amona
• Eluned Mansell
• Fozia Nisar
• James Taylor
• Joanna Christine Cooney
• Martin Anthony Hall
• Oliver John Goodall Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• PAUL CLIVE STONE · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEW LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

• NEW LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £101k
• Boards for Education income £1.6m
• SKILLS AND EDUCATION GROUP AWARDS LIMITED income £3.0m
• GIRLS' EDUCATION COMPANY LTD income £36.2m
• COKETHORPE EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED income £13.4m
• THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £59.1m

Side by side with its peers

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