THE WREKIN OLD HALL TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 528417 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WREKIN COLLEGE WELLINGTON COMPANY LTD

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1,668,305 for the year, resulting in a decrease in cash balances to £522,000. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that the charity maintains sufficient reserves and liquidity to meet its obligations, and the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steve Green — Headmaster (source)
• David Blackham — Senior Deputy Head (source)
• Ben Smith — Deputy Head (source)
• Simon Platford — Director of Music/Head of Sixth Form (source)
• Craig Williams — Head of Wrekin Prep (source)
• Elizabeth Devey — Deputy Head (source)
• Alison Hartland-Griffiths — Head of Lower School (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.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~17.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALISON JANE DIXON LLB · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Styles
• Dr Emma-Jane Crawford
• Dr Manjeet Samra
• JONATHAN ALAN GRANT
• Matthew Whittle
• Neil Griffiths · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAULINE MACK · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Laura Sian Lenander
• Shaun Harris
• Toby Shaw

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

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WREKIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

• THE WREKIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £563k
• PARK WREKIN COLLEGE SCHOOL OF GYMNASTICS AND DANCE LIMITED income £881k
• POWNALL HALL SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £3.9m
• EUROPEAN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT income £1.1m
• WHEELOCK PRE-SCHOOL income £108k
• OLD BUCKENHAM HALL (BRETTENHAM) EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £4.2m

Side by side with its peers

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