THE ENGLISH COLLEGE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1015053 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity raises funds for and otherwise supports The English College in Prague and enables the College to provide a quality education based on the best British and historical practice.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SCHOOL OR SCHOOLS IN PRAGUE USING ENGLISH AS THE PREDOMINANT LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION.

Area of benefit: PRAGUE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £88,230, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £1,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELIZABETH COOKEchair
• ANN LEWIS CMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbora Simkova
• Denis Edward Peter Paul Keefe
• Dr MARTYN BOND
• JANET GUNN CMG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Milan Bednar
• Sophie Vacikar Bessisso

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

Operates in: Czech Republic · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE VENERABLE ENGLISH COLLEGE TRUST.

• THE VENERABLE ENGLISH COLLEGE TRUST income £456k
• THE ANGLO-CZECH EDUCATIONAL FUND income £45k
• THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION income £245k
• THE ENGLISH CONCERT income £1.4m
• MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £3.2m
• WORCESTER COLLEGE OXFORD ENDOWMENT TRUST income £3.0m

Side by side with its peers

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