THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD

Registered charity 528143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NORTHBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED, THE NORTHUMBRIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST LIMITED, WESTFIELD SCHOOL

The principle object of the Trust, is to run a school where pupils will obtain a high standard of education. The ethos of Westfield School is based very much on development of the individual within a broad and challenging curriculum. Teaching methods are a careful blend of the traditional and the best in new ideas, while a variety of extra curricular activities supplement the broad curriculum.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity realized a deficit of £46,828 for the year ended 31 August 2025. Per the trustees' report, the school has entered into a merger agreement with Newcastle Royal Grammar School, leading to the winding up of the company, and the financial statements have been prepared on a basis other than going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by S&W Audit. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00669916

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mr Neil Walker — Headmaster (source)
• Mrs Jackie Rowley — Chair of Governors (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.

• SOLLY, Lucilla Catherine — director, appointed 15/11/2022on trustee list
• ROWLEY, Jacqueline Ann — director, appointed 07/06/2017on trustee list
• BAINBRIDGE, Kris — director, appointed 29/09/2015on trustee list
• DOWIE, Alexander Lightbody — director, appointed 29/09/2015not on trustee list
• KEIGHTLEY, Elizabeth Anne — director, appointed 29/09/2015not on trustee list
• LEESE, Joseph — secretary, appointed 23/11/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~18.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jacqueline Ann Rowleychair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kris Bainbridge
• Lex Dowie
• Liz Keightley
• Lucilla Solly

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWLAND HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED.

• NEWLAND HOUSE SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £6.7m
• Highworth Grammar School Trust, School Fund income £565k
• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• ERMINE EDUCATION TRUST income £3.1m
• HEATH MOUNT SCHOOL TRUST LTD income £10.1m
• BEACHBOROUGH SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £7.3m

Side by side with its peers

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