WEST KIRBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 207790 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT HOME AND SCHOOL, WEST KIRBY RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL

The objects of the charity are the education and care of children with complex special needs, who are recognised by their Local Education Authority as having communication, social, medical, emotional and behavioural problems.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £2,295,071 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with free reserves of £2,310,789, which falls within the stated policy target range of £1,500,000 to £3,000,000. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Voisey & Co LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00200018 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Hicks — Headteacher (source)
• Mrs Wilkinson — Head of Inclusion & Clinical Services (source)
• Mr Smith — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mr Flanagan — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mr Hulme — Deputy Headteacher (source)
• Mrs J. Jones — Assistant Headteacher (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.

• POWNER, Lynda — director, appointed 22/09/2025on trustee list
• PYATT, Susan — director, appointed 22/09/2025on trustee list
• SCHOLES, Louise Ann — director, appointed 24/03/2025on trustee list
• FLANAGAN, Gerry — director, appointed 01/11/2024on trustee list
• WHITWORTH, Thomas Jonathan — director, appointed 08/02/2024on trustee list
• BELL, Brian, Father — director, appointed 05/09/2022on trustee list
• PEACOCK, Stephen — director, appointed 30/07/2021on trustee list
• MERRY, Julie Maria — director, appointed 30/07/2021on trustee list
• THOMAS, Melanie Sian — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• BOTT, Lindsay Clare — secretary, appointed 01/01/2024

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); recorded price paid £1.4m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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

• Julie Merrychair
• Brian Bell · trustee of 3 other charities
• Gerry Flanagan
• Louise Ann Scholes · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynda Powner
• Melanie Sian Thomas
• Peter Merity
• Stephen Peacock
• Susan Pyatt
• Thomas Jonathan Whitworth

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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