EIL UK

Registered charity 1070440 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E.I.L LIMITED

EIL UK provides intercultural learning opportunities to create a more peaceful and tolerant world. Each year the charity's cultural immersion programmes include study abroad, family homestays, group educational programmes, training and language courses for more than 1000 international and UK participants. Our work deepens understanding of and appreciation for other countries and cultures.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit and held negative free reserves of £78,911, leading the auditors to identify a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. To mitigate liquidity risks, the trustees sold a fixed asset, Sterling Lodge, for net proceeds of £153,968 after the balance sheet date. The trustees are confident that these funds, combined with projected programme income, will support the charity's activities for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Locke Williams Associates LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03166809

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.

• SPENCER, Laura Joan — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• CANHAM, Karen Margaret — director, appointed 03/09/2022on trustee list
• BACKHOUSE, Stephen Patrick — director, appointed 04/09/2021on trustee list
• PELLEW, CVO, Mark Edward — director, appointed 04/12/2020not on trustee list
• DANCE, Kirsty — director, appointed 21/06/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Karen Margaret Canham
• Kirsty Jane Dance
• Laura Joan Spencer
• MARK EDWARD PELLEW CVO
• Rebecca Godwin
• Stephen Patrick Backhouse

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

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