INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING TRUST

Registered charity 1150778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IBT

Our main activity is to increase awareness of the developing world and its relationship with the developed countries through the use of television, radio and other forms of media.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY:-(1) THE PROMOTION (WHETHER ON TELEVISION, RADIO, THE INTERNET OR IN NEWSPAPERS OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS) OF PROGRAMMES, ARTICLES AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON A RANGE OF SUBJECTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:-(A)THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, COMMERCIAL, IDEOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES AND SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;(B)THE ARTS AND CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;(C)THE ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNICITY, CULTURES, RELIGIONS AND MIGRATION PATTERNS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON COMMUNITY RELATIONS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE;(D)THE INTER-RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ECONOMIES' AND SOCIETIES' CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IN THE CONTEXT OF WORLD INTERDEPENDENCE OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES;(E)THE MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND DEVELOPED COUNTRIES AND OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND OF HOW THEY PERCEIVE EACH OTHER; AND(F)THE WORK OF GOVERNMENTS, VOLUNTARY AGENCIES, INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS, AND INTER-GOVERNMENTAL AND OTHER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS;(2)THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH INTO THE ABOVEMENTIONED SUBJECTS AND INTO THE CONTRIBUTION MADE BY THE MEDIA TO THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THESE SUBJECTS AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH; AND(3)THE PROVISION OF TRAINING, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE TO ITS MEMBERS AND TO OTHERS ON EFFECTIVE WAYS IN WHICH THE MEDIA CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, RACIAL HARMONY AND THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS WORLDWIDE.

Area of benefit: ENGLAND AND WALES

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 the charity generated a deficit of £14,815, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £117,748. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level exceeds the stated policy target of twelve months' basic budgeted running costs (£100,000). The trustees confirm that assets are sufficient to meet obligations on a fund-by-fund basis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edith Rose Caldwellchair
• Alistair Francis Burnett
• Anna Doble
• Helen Louise Palmer
• Jonathan Scott Lundie
• Melissa Ezechukwu
• RICHARD ANTHONY SUMRAY
• Sarah Mitchell

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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