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Registered charity · Wirral

Birkenhead School

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Wirral
Website
www.birkenheadschool.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birkenhead School
Registered
2002

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£13m
  • 2024£14m£13m
  • 2023£12m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£11m
  • 2021£10m£9.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 1% · Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE ACQUISITION OF THE PROPERTY AND ASSETS OF THE BIRKENHEAD SCHOOL LIMITED, THE TRUST KNOWN AS THE MCALLESTER TRUST (CONSTITUTED BY TRUST DEED DATED 18 NOVEMBER 1952) AND THE TRUST KNOWN AS THE JUBILEE TRUST (CONSTITUTED BY TRUST DEED DATED 30 MARCH 1911) AND THE CARRYING ON, AS SUCCESSORS TO THE SAID COMPANY AND TRUSTS OF THEIR CHARITABLE OBJECTS AND THE ADOPTION AND DISCHARGE OF THEIR LIABILITIES AND ENGAGEMENTS.B) TO FURTHER THE EDUCATION (ACADEMIC, SOCIAL, MORAL AND PHYSICAL) OF PUPILS ATTENDING THE BIRKENHEAD SCHOOL (INCLUDING THE BIRKENHEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL) IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

9 trustees on the board

3y median 2y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

5.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

5
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 9

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 6Arts and leisure 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£13.6m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

9.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 5.4 in 2021

160 from 163 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
6%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1093419
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 23 JULY 2002 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 30 JUNE 2004
Companies House
Company number 04492250 · Active
Contact on the register
01516524014 · enquire@birkenheadschool.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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