WORLDWRITE

Registered charity 1060869 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7953963

WORLDwrite advances the education of young people aged 16 to 25 years, promotes international understanding, facilitates the use of film, new media and Citizen TV and encourages young people to develop new skills through volunteering. It is not a grant giving charity.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 13 AND 25 YEARS INCLUSIVE, PARTICULARLY BY WAY OF INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES AND TOURS, IN SUBJECTS SUCH AS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, CULTURE AND LANGUAGES AND IN INTER-PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AND PRACTICAL LIFE SKILLS SO AS TO ASSIST SUCH YOUNG PERSONS IN GROWING TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND AS MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £39,160 against total expenditure of £40,595, resulting in a net deficit for the year. The charity reports that it was able to maintain its stated free reserve target of £5,000, with unrestricted funds carried forward totaling £5,635.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WORLDwrite (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR SHIRLEY LAWES
• KIRK LEECH
• Toby Marshal

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Side by side with its peers

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