WORLD ASSOCIATION OF GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS

Registered charity 1159255 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAGGGS

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts is dedicated to girls and young women in the world. Our diverse Movement represents ten million girls and young women from 150 countries. Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting transforms the lives of girls and young women worldwide, supporting and empowering them to achieve their fullest potential and become responsible citizens of the world.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that WAGGGS achieved a net income surplus of £455k for the year ended 31 December 2024, a significant improvement from the previous year's deficit. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £3.8m, which exceeds its stated policy target of £2.9m, indicating a strong financial position.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Candela González — WAGGGS World Board Chair (source)
• Anna Segall — CEO of WAGGGS (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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (56% 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: 9.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Elizabeth Govan-Siskchair
• Caroline Olivia Brown
• Chun-Wei Fang
• Dr Helga Herman Mutasingwa
• Dr Hina Velji
• Dr Natasha Hannah Montesalvo
• Elizabeth Chimwemwe Chatuwa
• Fatemah Alfailakawi
• Fiona Marie Lejosne
• Ghofrane Ben Hamed
• Josephine Wairimu Mwangi
• Marina De Mattey Derosa
• Monika Dreik
• Niumaath Shafeeg
• Sharrada Segeran
• Signe Marie Obel
• Tricia Jean Tilford

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

Operates in: Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia · Aruba · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahrain · Bangladesh

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION.

• WORCESTERSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £198k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £31.6m
• THE NORFOLK COUNTY GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £216k
• HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY GUIDES ASSOCIATION income £248k
• WARWICKSHIRE GUIDE ASSOCIATION income £190k
• THE GUIDE ASSOCIATION LONDON AND SOUTH EAST ENGLAND REGION income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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