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

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Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income before adjustments of £346,163 and total funds carried forward of £10,713,711. The trustees note that free reserves amounted to £1,754,389, which falls within their stated target range of £1,500,000 to £3,000,000. The charity also disclosed a defined benefit pension scheme deficit of £341,000.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Voisey & Co LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00200018

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.

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).

Trustees

• 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

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