JAMAICA BASIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (UK)

Registered charity 1057624 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JBSF(UK)

The principal activity is to assist children attending basic schools in Jamaica by advancing the education of those children between 3 and 6 years.

Objects

The charity?s objects are:-(1) to relieve children attending basic schools in Jamaica and to advance the education of such children in particular by: (1) to promote the development of the basic school sector in Jamaica through the provision of facilities for the education at the schools; (2) to assist the training and development of teachers in this sector; (3) to generate and access the funding necessary to facilitate the objects.(2) for the public benefit, to provide relief and assistance to the black and ethnic minority communities of adults and families in Croydon and South East London who are in need, by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or discrimination, in particular but not exclusively by: (1) providing a food provision service for such persons which they could not otherwise afford through lack of means;(2) providing befriending and support to vulnerable people in need, and help to access other support services; (3) operating a division of the charity to provide specific services to facilitate the objects; (4) generating and accessing the funding necessary to facilitate the objects.

Area of benefit: JAMAICA

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

Causes: Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £2,491 for the year, resulting in a shift from unrestricted funds of £1,395 to a net liability position of £1,096. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds no employees and incurred no trustee remuneration, relying entirely on donations and grants for its operations.

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 3 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• EARL RATTRAY
• JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS
• Kelly-Jade Bonitto
• Shimeika Morgan

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

Operates in: Jamaica

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 THE JASON ROBERTS FOUNDATION.

• THE JASON ROBERTS FOUNDATION income £220k
• BEIS YAAKOV PRIMARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £1.9m
• THE JAMEEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION UK income £2.0m
• ONE CHILD FOUNDATION (SRI LANKA) LTD income £131k
• NANCY REUBEN PRIMARY SCHOOL income £2.2m
• RAINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION income £242k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.