Upton High School Fund

Analysis

Upton High School Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Chester. It was registered in July 1995, 31 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, which this site groups under education and training. It says it acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending August 2025, Upton High School Fund reported income of £353k and spending of £372k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income grew from £82k to £353k (+330%), an average of +44% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income rose by 176%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 21,402 England and Wales charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Upton High School Fund sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Happy Tots Pre-School Playgroup (£353k), Frome and District Agricultural Society Limited (£353k) and The Exeter University Foundation (£352k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.