The Foundation Charity of Bishop Vesey's Grammar School

Registered charity 517907 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BISHOP VESEY'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Bishop Vesey's Grammar School is a voluntary aided selective secondary school for boys only from age 11 to age 16 and with boys and girls in the sixth form.

Objects

AFTER PAYMENT OF ANY EXPENSES OF ADMINISTRATION, THE NET INCOME OF THE FOUNDATION SHALL BE APPLIED BY THE GOVERNORS IN ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING WAYS:—(A) THE PROVISION OF A SITE IN SUTTON COLDFIELD FOR THE SCHOOL.(B) IN PROVIDING SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR THE SCHOOL OF A KIND NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY PUBLIC FUNDS.(C) IN AWARDING TO PUPILS WHO ARE ATTENDING, OR WHO HAVE ATTENDED, THE SCHOOL EXHIBITIONS TENABLE AT THE SCHOOL OR AT ANY TRAINING COLLEGE FOR TEACHERS, UNIVERSITY OR OTHER INSTITUTION OF FURTHER (INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL) EDUCATION APPROVED BY THE GOVERNORS. EXHIBITIONS MAY COMPRISE PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF FEES OR BY WAY OF MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE, AND SHALL BE AWARDED UNDER RULES TO BE MADE BY THE GOVERNORS, INCLUDING RULES AS TO THE VALUE AND PERIOD OF TENURE OF THE EXHIBITIONS AND THE QUALIFICATIONS AND METHOD OF ASCERTAINMENT AND SELECTION, OF CANDIDATES.(D) IN PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE, OUTFITS, CLOTHING, TOOLS, INSTRUMENTS OR BOOKS TO ENABLE PUPILS AND FORMER PUPILS OF THE SCHOOL ON LEAVING THE SCHOOL OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION TO PREPARE FOR, OR TO ASSIST THEIR ENTRY INTO, A PROFESSION, TRADE OR CALLING.(E) IN OTHERWISE PROMOTING THE EDUCATION, INCLUDING SOCIAL AND PHYSICAL TRAINING, OF PUPILS AND FORMER PUPILS OF THE SCHOOL.

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.

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held free reserves of £355,615, which is in excess of its stated policy target of £50,000. The charity reported a net income of £2,370,531 for the year, driven largely by significant donations and the use of permanent endowment funds for the Learning Resource Centre project. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Harwoods. Discloses 5 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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 ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEAN JAMES CARTERchair
• Christopher Moore
• DOMINIC GERARD ROBSON
• Joanna Louise Davis
• Mark Maybury
• Paul Franks
• Paul Sherriff

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS.

• THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL AT LEEDS income £32.8m
• BURY GRAMMAR SCHOOLS CHARITY income £18.5m
• BRISTOL GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £21.5m
• ERMYSTED'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL income £47k
• FOWEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £113k
• LEEDS GRAMMAR SCHOOL AND LEEDS GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £617k

Side by side with its peers

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