QUESTSCOPE

Registered charity 1000649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as QUESTSCOPE LIMITED, QUESTSCOPE LIMITED FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Founded 35 years ago, Questscope is an innovative organization that works with individuals, communities, local organizations and international partners to produce social, educational, and entrepreneurial opportunities for marginalized youth and women.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Questscope reported a net outgoing resource of £364,651 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves falling to a deficit of £18,596. The Trustees note that the level of unrestricted reserves is currently negative and are working to bring them back to the desired level of 9 to 12 months of operating expenditure. Despite the deficit, the auditors confirmed the financial statements give a true and fair view and reported nothing regarding material uncertainties about going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crean & Co Accountants Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02308065

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Curt Rhodes — Founder & Chief Vision Officer (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• CORDELL, Heather, Dr. — director, appointed 27/09/2015on trustee list
• GAPPA, John Allen — director, appointed 29/04/2015on trustee list
• AL YAFI, Mowafak, Dr — director, appointed 04/05/2014not on trustee list
• RHODES, Curtis Neal, Dr — director, appointed 01/10/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Curtis Rhodeschair
• Dr Heather Cordell
• Dr Mowafak Al Yafi
• John Gappa

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Germany · Jordan · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Syria

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STARSCOPE LIMITED.

• STARSCOPE LIMITED income £111k
• SCOPE income £44.0m
• THE QUESTORS LIMITED income £1.0m
• QUEST ACADEMY income £256k
• SCOPE WEST SUSSEX income £349k
• THE SCOUT ASSOCIATION income £46.9m

Side by side with its peers

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