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Registered charity · Birmingham

Birmingham Newman University

The conduct of a Roman Catholic university for the advancement of education, learning and research for the benefit of the public.

  • 19 trustees
  • Income £48m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.newman.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Birmingham Newman University
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£48m£44m
  • 2024£34m£32m
  • 2023£25m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£24m£24m
  • 2021£24m£22m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The conduct of a Roman Catholic university for the advancement of education, learning and research for the benefit of the public.

Grants received

3 grants · £2,664,978 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

  • Department for Education £2,513,9342020-04-01
  • Department for Education £123,2002020-04-01
  • BBC Children in Need £27,8442019-05-21
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.

2.8y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.9y
average years in governance
15
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 19Amateur Sport 2General Charitable Purposes 2Religious Activities 2Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

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

Professional services 18Education 12Arts and leisure 4

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£47.7m 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.

11.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 17.6 in 2021

367 from 282 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1110346
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/06/2005AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 09/01/2008AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 11/02/2013 as amended on 03 Oct 2019 as amended on 02 Aug 2023 as amended on 15 Dec 2012
Companies House
Company number 05493384 · Active
Contact on the register
0121 4761181 · Y.Salter.Wright@staff.newman.ac.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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