The City of Knowledge Academy

Analysis

The City of Knowledge Academy is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in August 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and arts/culture/heritage/science, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 07246107). It says it provides buildings/facilities/open space, provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The City of Knowledge Academy reported income of £80k and spending of £57k, leaving 28% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £117k to £80k (-32%), an average of -9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 57%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The City of Knowledge Academy sits at the 57th percentile: it is larger than about 57% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 68th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St John the Baptist, Leamington Priors (£80k), Brook Street Unitarian Chapel (£80k) and Oldham Baptist Church (£80k).