W G S TRUST

Registered charity 505207 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objects of the charity are the advancement of the educational work of Withington Girls' School (charity number 1158226) and the advancement of education. A specific aim is to maintain and enhance the level of means-tested bursary support to safeguard the diversity of the school community. It addition, the charity provides financial support for the school's on-going building programme.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE SCHOOL. (B) CHARITABLE PURPOSES (WHETHER EDUCATIONAL OR NOT) OF OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE SCHOOL. (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

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: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £6,038,861, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of a minimum of £10 million in unrestricted reserves. Despite this shortfall against the policy goal, the trustees and auditors confirm the trust is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for at least twelve months.

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 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~139.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (63% 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• LORD JOHN LEEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Allan Beardsworth
• Christopher Poston
• RICHARD BAILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ranjit Munro
• Richard John Bate
• Sarah Haslam
• Sharon Elizabeth Senn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Swarna Vaddi
• Thomas Bennett

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS.

• THE WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL NHS TRUST CHARITABLE FUNDS income £805k
• WEST NORFOLK AND KING'S LYNN GIRLS SCHOOLS TRUST income £43k
• OLD WARWICKIAN TRUST income £69k
• THE OVERSTALL CHARITABLE TRUST income £35k
• THE WOMEN OF VISION TRUST income £84k
• WARRINGTON TRAINING TRUST LIMITED income £419k

Side by side with its peers

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