THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1072453 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION

The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award is the world's leading achievement award for young people, bringing together practical experiences and life skills to create committed global citizens.The mission of The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation is to promote the International Award, provide young people with the award and preserve the quality of the award worldwide.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made a sizeable surplus of £9 million for the year ended 31 March 2025, bringing unrestricted funds to over £22.2 million. The trustees report a reasonable expectation that the charity remains a going concern, with no material uncertainty identified. The charity plans to rebuild its general fund to a target level over a five-year period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

What the charity says about itself (2023/24)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• HRH The Duke of Edinburgh KG, KT, GCVO — Chairman (source)
• Martin Houghton-Brown — Secretary General (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~44.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 7.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HRH THE EARL OF WESSEXchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Al-Karim Khimji
• Aline Santos
• Anita Jacoby
• Cameron Smart
• Catherine Fall
• Jiri Zrust
• Joshua Kwabena Apeadu-Siaw
• Muhoho Kenyatta
• Richard Oldfield

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · City Of Westminster · Jamaica · Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD.

• THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S AWARD income £24.1m
• DIANA AWARD income £2.0m
• SCHOOL FUND income £301k
• WELCOME BAPTIST CHURCH income £200k
• THE ROYAL FOUNDATION OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES income £19.6m
• The King's Trust International income £7.6m

Side by side with its peers

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