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.

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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.

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 King's School Worcester Charitable Trust.

• The King's School Worcester Charitable Trust income £494k
• WITHINGTON GIRLS' SCHOOL income £11.3m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• WILTSHIRE SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS income £809k
• WIGAN ATHLETIC FC COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.8m
• BEIS TRANA SCHOOL OF LONDON LIMITED income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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