MANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS

Registered charity 1164323 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q15244494 · Wikipedia · also known as MHSG

The charity activities of the School include the advancement of education for the public benefit by the provision and conduct of a day school in Manchester, the provision of bursaries, scholarships, allowances, or any other form of financial assistance, the provision and support of ancillary or incidental educational activities and the provision and support of other educational institutions.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE SCHOOL ARE:THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY:(A) THE PROVISION AND CONDUCT OF A DAY AND/OR DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS IN OR NEAR MANCHESTER OR ELSEWHERE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY FOR GIRLS AS THE GOVERNORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE;(B) THE PROVISION OF BURSARIES, SCHOLARSHIPS, ALLOWANCES, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AT SUCH TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE GOVERNORS SHALL IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE;(C) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF ANCILLARY OR INCIDENTAL EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE IN MANCHESTER OR ELSEWHERE; AND(D) THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND ACTIVITIES IN MANCHESTER OR ELSEWHERE.

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

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Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £366,184 for the year, contrasting with an incoming surplus in the prior period. Unrestricted funds decreased to £4,182,150, while the charity maintains a reserves policy target of approximately £3,000,000, representing three months of expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirm the school remains a going concern with sufficient financial resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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)

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mrs Helen F Jeys — Head Mistress (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 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 ~3.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Laura Earnshawchair
• Giles Christopher Burton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joy Melanie Blackburn
• Kate Elizabeth Dickson
• MERLYN VIVIENNE LOWTHER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mohammed Naveed Yasin
• Mohammed Wakkas Khan
• Professor Carol Elaine Baxter CBE
• Professor Fiona Maria Smyth
• Sarah Ramsbottom
• Susheila Kumari Cox
• Tamsin Sophie Amanda Lloyd-Tyrrell

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Giles Christopher Burton — trustee here and at THE MANCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 GREEK SCHOOL OF MANCHESTER.

• GREEK SCHOOL OF MANCHESTER income £32k
• MANCHESTER JEWISH SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION income £694k
• MANCHESTER JUNIOR GIRLS SCHOOL income £1.3m
• THE EDGBASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS income £13.1m
• MANCHESTER UNITED FOUNDATION income £8.7m
• MADANI GIRLS' SCHOOL income £976k

Side by side with its peers

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