INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION (UK) LIMITED

Registered charity 1126291 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of education by the development, administration and promotion of:a) programmes of education for students at different levels within schools (primary, middle and upper secondary school levels) for adoption by authorised schools in all countries;b) international examination for authorised schools giving access to higher education in all countries.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:A) THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS WITHIN SCHOOLS (PRIMARY, MIDDLE AND UPPER SECONDARY LEVELS OR SUCH OTHER LEVELS AS MAY BY RELEVANT OVERSEAS) FOR ADOPTION BY AUTHORISED SCHOOLS IN ALL COUNTRIES;B) THE DEVELOPMENT, ADMINISTRATION AND PROMOTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATION FOR AUTHORISED SCHOOLS GIVING ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN ALL COUNTRIES; ANDC) SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY DETERMINE; AND3.2 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £20,364,593, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £20m. The charity reports a net movement in funds of a loss of £134,413 for the year, primarily due to an unrealised exchange loss, while total income slightly exceeded total expenditure before this adjustment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2022 (received 19/06/2023, 50 days after the 30/04/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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 (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrea Smith
• David Ralph Homer
• Olli-Pekka Heinonen
• William Henry Oldreive
• Xabisa Avumile Dyosi

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE FUND UK.

• INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE FUND UK income £924k
• The International Medical Education Trust income £770k
• THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATIONS LIMITED income £44k
• THE EDUCATION ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION income £52.4m
• THE BRITISH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW income £2.7m
• THE CHARTERED ASSOCIATION OF BUSINESS SCHOOLS income £18.3m

Side by side with its peers

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