THE BLUE COAT SCHOOL BIRMINGHAM LIMITED

Registered charity 1152244 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE BLUE COAT SCHOOL, THE BLUE COAT SCHOOL BIRMINGHAM

The object of the School is the provision and conduct, in or near the City Of Birmingham, of a day school for boys and girls. Within this object, the School has various permanent endowments and unendowed Trust Funds held for special purposes in connection with the development of the School's facilities and for Foundations, scholarships, bursaries, prizes and other educational purposes.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit before investment losses of £140,806 for the year ended 31 August 2025, contrasting with a gain in the prior year. Despite this operational deficit and unrealised investment losses, the charity holds unrestricted general reserves of £1,531,332 and designated funds of £5,226,640, which the governors consider sufficient to support working capital requirements and future facility investments without external funding.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £180,001 - £190,000 (FY2024) to £190,001 - £200,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08502615
• Trading subsidiary: BCS ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 09109064

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs K Gilmore — Chair of Governors (source)
• Mr N G Neeson — Headmaster (source)
• Mr R J Newman — Head of Prep and Second Master (source)
• Mrs H R West — Head of Pre-Prep and Academic Lead (source)
• Mr M Allen — Bursar (source)
• Mrs A Franklin — Director of Marketing and Admissions (source)
• Mrs N L Ashman — Director of Learning Success (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BROUGHTON-TAYLOR, Mark Alistier — director, appointed 29/11/2024on trustee list
• BAHIA, Sarbjit Singh, Dr — director, appointed 18/10/2023not on trustee list
• ANDREWS, Elizabeth Helen — director, appointed 16/05/2023not on trustee list
• BUTLER, Charles, Rev — director, appointed 22/03/2023on trustee list
• THOMPSON, Matthew, The Very Reverend — director, appointed 01/11/2017on trustee list
• POOLE, Anita — director, appointed 02/10/2017on trustee list
• DYKE, Martin Hamilton — director, appointed 24/04/2013on trustee list
• GILMORE, Karan Diedrie — director, appointed 24/04/2013on trustee list
• HORDERN, William Guy Shubra — director, appointed 24/04/2013on trustee list
• SINGLETON, Bernard Hugh — director, appointed 24/04/2013on trustee list
• ALLEN, Martin Nicholas — secretary, appointed 17/06/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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 (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Milner
• Anita Poole
• BERNARD HUGH SINGLETON
• KARAN DIEDRE GILMORE · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK BROUGHTON-TAYLOR
• MARTIN HAMILTON DYKE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Charles Butler
• VERY REV MATT THOMPSON · trustee of 6 other charities
• WILLIAM GUY SHUBRA HORDERN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• THE REDDIFORD SCHOOL CHARITABLE TRUST income £3.1m
• PARKSIDE SCHOOL TRUST income £4.5m
• THE COOPERS' COMPANY AND COBORN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION income £753k
• ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL, EDGBASTON income £5.2m
• ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIMITED income £7.1m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.