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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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
- 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 total360Giving 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
- Department for Education
- Department for Education
- Department for Education
- Department for Education
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
- Alexandra Lofthouse Chair since 2015
- Calvin Robert Hussey since 2017
- Ian Lang since 2023
- Jameela Hickox since 2026
- Jon Harris since 2022
Trustees past 6 years
- Alexandra Lofthouse Chair since 2015
- Calvin Robert Hussey since 2017
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Alexandra Lofthouse Chair since 2015
- Calvin Robert Hussey since 2017
- Ian Lang since 2023
- Jameela Hickox since 2026
- Jon Harris since 2022
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
0.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
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
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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