COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION (UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH)

Registered charity 1095118 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION UK BRANCH

To work for the advancement of parliamentary democracy throughout the Commonwealth.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £12.5 million at the year-end, which is below the stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reported a net income of £8.2 million, primarily driven by donations and grants. The accounts state that the charity remains a going concern, with adequate resources to continue operations 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 Deloitte LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Rt Hon. Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP — Co-President (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• FCDO — “CPA UK, GEDU & FCDO sign MoU” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kate Osamorchair
• Adam Jogee
• Bambos Charalambous
• Baroness Ann Taylor
• Baroness Elizabeth Sugg
• Carolyn Harris
• David Mundell MP
• Dawn Butler
• Gagan Mohindra
• Harriett Baldwin MP
• Kevin Bonavia
• LORD NAVNIT DHOLAKIA
• Layla Moran MP
• Lord Syed Kamall
• Meg Hillier
• Ms Patricia Ferguson
• Paulette Hamilton
• RT HON LORD FOULKES OF CUMNOCK
• Robin Swann
• Rt Hon Baroness D'Souza · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Dickson OBE

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Botswana · Brunei · Cameroon · Canada · City Of Westminster · Dominica · Eswatini

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Commonwealth Jewish Council.

• Commonwealth Jewish Council income £181k
• PARACLETOS income £307k
• ROYAL GLAMORGAN POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL CENTRE ASSOCIATION income £114k
• UNION OF WELSH INDEPENDENTS INCORPORATED income £674k
• CANTIACORUM FOUNDATION income £155k
• NATIONAL NUMERACY income £2.2m

Side by side with its peers

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