BRITISH FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

Registered charity 1127408 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Fund-raising through events and accepting donations from benefactors

Objects

TO ADVANCE TERTIARY EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN THE CARIBBEAN BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, FACILITIES AND OTHER RESOURCES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES OR ITS SUCCESSOR.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total net assets of £512,978, comprising £490,570 in restricted funds and £22,408 in unrestricted funds. The trustees report that the charity is in good financial standing with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. However, the trustees acknowledge that a formal reserves policy is still being developed, with an intention to hold reserves equivalent to 12 months of operational expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06420929

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.

• FORDE KC, Martin — director, appointed 14/11/2024not on trustee list
• NURSE, Lewitt — director, appointed 14/11/2024on trustee list
• BRATHWAITE, Dawn — director, appointed 07/11/2024on trustee list
• SMITH-HILLMAN, Vindelyn — director, appointed 06/11/2024on trustee list
• RICHARDS, Mark David, Dr — director, appointed 06/04/2016not on trustee list
• MULLINGS-SMITH, Elizabeth Anne-Marie — director, appointed 21/01/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dawn Brathwaite
• Elizabeth Mullings-Smith
• Lewitt Nurse
• Martin Forde KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vindelyn Smith-Hillman

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Barbados · Belize · Dominican Republic · Grenada · Jamaica · Saint Vincent · St Kitts And Nevis · St Lucia · The Bahamas · Throughout London · Trinidad And Tobago

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation.

• UBS UK Donor-Advised Foundation income £181.2m
• MW (HO) FOUNDATION income £207k
• RICHMOND TRUST FUND income £220k
• WINDSOR ROAD FOUNDATION income £101k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• ASUM UK income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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