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Registered charity · Birmingham

West House School

The objects for which the Charity is established is to advance education by:a. maintaining an independent day school in Birmingham for boys and girls to provide a varied and purposeful education; b. maintaining any other school or schools, in...

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £4.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Education/training
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.westhouseprep.com (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
West House School
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.1m£4.1m
  • 2024£4.3m£4.0m
  • 2023£3.8m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2022£3.7m£3.4m
  • 2021£3.4m£3.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

The objects for which the Charity is established is to advance education by:a. maintaining an independent day school in Birmingham for boys and girls to provide a varied and purposeful education; b. maintaining any other school or schools, in Birmingham or elsewhere, for boys and/or girls, to provide a varied and purposeful education; andc. providing financial assistance to individuals of ability and/or proven need to access education at the school.(the Objects)

Grants received

3 grants · £10,686 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

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £10,397 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £289

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £5,6472011-03-04
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £4,7502005-04-20
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund £2892005-04-20
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

4.7y median 2y
average tenure
13y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.5y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

9
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 10Finance 1Professional 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£4.1m latest income
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.

13.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 16.1 in 2021

80 from 78 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
528959
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 13TH AUGUST 1959 as amended on 07 Jun 2025
Companies House
Company number 00634981 · Active
Contact on the register
01214404097 · jo.robinson@westhouseprep.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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