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Registered charity · Birmingham

The Hive College

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Disability, Economic/community Development/employment
Where
Birmingham City
Website
www.wsucbpt.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Hive College
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.0m£3.8m
  • 2024£3.6m£3.1m
  • 2023£2.9m£2.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.9m£2.5m
  • 2021£2.5m£2.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 87%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1. ADVANCING EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION BY DEVELOPING OR MANAGING OR PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO YOUNG PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, INCLUDING PUPILS OR FORMER PUPILS OF WILSON STUART SCHOOL;2. PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONGST PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED BY PROVIDING THEM WITH OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINING, EMPLOYMENT, VOLUNTEERING OR SOCIAL INTERACTION, IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THEIR NEEDS OR ASSIST THEM TO INTEGRATE INTO SOCIETY AND TO ACHIEVE INDEPENDENT LIVING. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS OBJECT, ‘SOCIALLY EXCLUDED’ MEANS PEOPLE WHO ARE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY, OR PARTS OF SOCIETY AS A RESULT OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FACTORS: SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS, DISABILITY OR POOR EDUCATIONAL OR SKILLS ATTAINMENT;3. ADVANCING HEALTH IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION PROMOTING AND PROTECTING THE HEALTH, MORALE, CONFIDENCE, WELL-BEING, SKILLS AND ABILITY OFF PEOPLE WHO ARE DEEDED VULNERABLE; AND4. PROMOTING FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF BIRMINGHAM AND SURROUNDING AREA THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABLEMENT, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF LIFE OF THE SAID INHABITANTS.

Grants received

5 grants · £947,417 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

  • Department for Education · £947,417 (5 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Education £23,9092020-04-01
  • Department for Education £892,2532020-04-01
  • Department for Education £6,2782020-04-01
  • Department for Education £18,6482020-04-01
  • Department for Education £6,3292020-04-01
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.

5 trustees on the board

5.4y median 4y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

5
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 5Economic/community Development/employment 5

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 11Finance 1Other services 1

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£4.0m 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.

0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months

88 from 61 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
1168589
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 15 JUL 2015 as amended on 21 Oct 2022
Companies House
Company number 09687904 · Active
Contact on the register
01213734475
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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