TETTENHALL COLLEGE

Registered charity 528617 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Co educational, independent day and boarding school.

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Latest income

£8.0m

Latest spending

£8.6m

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that a material uncertainty exists regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to government changes affecting the independent school sector. The budgets and forecasts are dependent on maintaining pupil numbers, continuing bank support, and receiving funds from land sales and donations. Despite this, the auditor concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: material uncertainty disclosed

“these events or conditions, along with the other matters as set forth in note 2.1, indicate that a material uncertainty exists that may cast significant doubt on the Charity's ability to continue as a going concern.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/08/2025)

Total income

£8.0m

Total spending

£8.6m

Reserves (reported)

£4.0m

Employees

132

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (90% 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

ANDREW WYNNE
Andrew Roger Gayler
Angela Helen Curtis
CATHARINE L HAMMOND
JILL PARKER MBE, JP · trustee of 1 other charity
PROF Sammy Chung
Roshnee Lina Sidhu
SARAH JANE ISBISTER
SIMON Christopher Peter MADDOX
Timothy Julian Beech
Trevor Paul Brueton

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

Operates in: Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/08/2025	£8.0m	£8.6m
31/08/2024	£9.4m	£8.6m
31/08/2023	£8.6m	£7.7m
31/08/2022	£6.9m	£6.4m
31/08/2021	£4.8m	£5.8m

Common questions

Is TETTENHALL COLLEGE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that a material uncertainty exists regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern due to government changes affecting the independent school sector. The budgets and forecasts are dependent on maintaining pupil numbers, continuing bank support, and receiving funds from land sales and donations. Despite this, the auditor concluded that the directors' use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TOBY AND REGINA WYLES CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£25k
THE CORNERSTONE WORKS LTD	1	£4k
THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED.

ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED income £7.5m
MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL OXFORD LIMITED income £24.7m
HALLIFORD SCHOOL LIMITED income £11.8m
TAUNTON SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY income £30.5m
SOLIHULL SCHOOL income £28.1m
ORWELL PARK SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £5.1m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TETTENHALL COLLEGE	£8.0m	—	0	unclear	—	material uncertainty
ST HUGH'S SCHOOL (CARSWELL) TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£7.5m	£140,001 - £150,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt
MAGDALEN COLLEGE SCHOOL OXFORD LIMITED FY2025	£24.7m	£270,001 - £280,000	—	above	—	noted
HALLIFORD SCHOOL LIMITED FY2025	£11.8m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
TAUNTON SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL CHARITY FY2025	£30.5m	£160,001 - £170,000	—	below	—	no doubt
SOLIHULL SCHOOL FY2025	£28.1m	£190,001 - £200,000	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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