THE POLISH EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY

Registered charity 1159980 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as POLSKA MACIERZ SZKOLNA ZAGRANICA (PMS)

Educational activities

Objects

3.1.1 To advance the education of all young people in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, in the Polish language, history, culture, traditions and Christian values.

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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Registered contact address: Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £30,102 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £589,062. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis. The charity maintains reserves in excess of two years' commitment of expenditure on charitable activities.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ela Barrasschair
• Aleksandra Ferrara
• Aleksandra Podhorodecka · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anna Kwolek
• Antonina Machowska MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daria Wilkinson
• Dorota Chmielewska
• Edyta Ozarek
• Halina Stochniol
• Joanna Mechelewska
• Katarzyna Kowalczyk
• Magdalena Bialecka
• Malgorzata Lasocka · trustee of 1 other charity
• Theresa Gorski

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ANGLO-CZECH EDUCATIONAL FUND.

• THE ANGLO-CZECH EDUCATIONAL FUND income £45k
• N D EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £27k
• THE COPSEWOOD EDUCATION TRUST income £13.3m
• POLISH UNIVERSITY ABROAD income £497k
• POEL TZEDEK CHARITABLE TRUST income £934k
• THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £59.1m

Side by side with its peers

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