THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1171947 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC051982 (OSCR)

The CWGF is a charitable foundation highlighting the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC). We engage young people from communities around the UK interested in the story of our common sacrifice and shared history.By supporting the CWGF, people will enable us to fund education and activities which will capture the public imagination, and highlight the work the CWGC does.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) TO PROMOTE AND SUPPORT THE MAINTENANCE AND UPKEEP OF GRAVES, CEMETERIES, BUILDINGS AND MEMORIALS FOR THE BURIAL AND COMMEMORATION OF MEMBERS OF THE NAVAL, MILITARY AND ARMED FORCES FROM COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO WERE KILLED DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR OR THE SECOND WORLD WAR ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION), THROUGH THE SUPPORT OF CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION; (B) TO ADVANCE CITIZENSHIP AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMONWEALTH THROUGH THE COMMEMORATION OF MEMBERS OF THE NAVAL, MILITARY AND ARMED FORCES FROM COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH WHO WERE KILLED DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR; AND(C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION), THROUGH ADVANCING EDUCATION IN THE LIVES OF THOSE COMMEMORATED BY THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION AND IN THE HISTORY OF THE CEMETERIES, BUILDINGS AND MEMORIALS MAINTAINED BY THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Windsor and Maidenhead, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £315,000, which is above the charity's stated policy target of six months' payroll costs (£90,000). The charity reports a net asset position of £315,000 and confirms it is a going concern, supported by a funding model with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and a £500,000 loan facility.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Commonwealth War Graves Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 45.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BRIG ALASTAIR ANDREW BERNARD REIBEY BRUCE OF CRIONAICH
• Christopher Walsh
• DAME JUDITH MAYHEW JONAS DBE
• Gerald Anthony Allison
• Julian Ascott Evans
• The Rt Hon Kevan Jones
• The Rt Hon. Philip Martin Dunne · trustee of 3 other charities

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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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE DWF FOUNDATION.

• THE DWF FOUNDATION income £454k
• COMMONWEALTH HERITAGE FORUM income £1.0m
• CGWM UK Charitable Foundation income £32k
• COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR WAKEFIELD income £192k
• KFC FOUNDATION income £2.2m
• THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION IN WALES income £3.2m

Side by side with its peers

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