The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust

Registered charity 1172107 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as QCT, THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH TRUST

The Queen's Commonwealth Trust champions, funds and connects young leaders who are working hard to change the world. We share their stories, give them a platform to amplify their ideas, and inspire others to join in.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (OBJECTS) ARE TO FURTHER SUCH PURPOSES AS ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY (IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION) DETERMINE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £91,029 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £812,397 to £721,368. The trustees consider the current unrestricted reserves of £698,475 to be sufficient, as they exceed the stated policy target of six to twelve months of annual costs (£90,000–£180,000). The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 3 (FY2024) → 0 (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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 05/02/2026, 5 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10482169

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ANDREWS, Jonathan James — director, appointed 03/07/2025on trustee list
• KOTECHA, Ameer — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Aneeta — director, appointed 03/08/2020on trustee list
• BALL, Stephen Quentin — director, appointed 07/05/2020on trustee list
• WILKINSON, Janette Carole — director, appointed 01/05/2019on trustee list
• BENTLEY, Julie — secretary, appointed 14/07/2024

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 31.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Ballchair
• Ameer Kotecha · trustee of 1 other charity
• Aneeta Williams
• Janette Carole Wilkinson
• Jonathan Andrews

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Australia · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belize · Botswana · Brunei · Cameroon · Canada · Cyprus · Dominica · Eswatini

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing.

• The Queen's Institute of Community Nursing income £1.3m
• THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UK TRUST income £31k
• QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FOUNDATION income £46k
• The King's Trust International income £7.6m
• QUEEN ELIZABETH SCHOLARSHIP TRUST LIMITED income £1.2m
• THE PRINCESS ANNE'S CHARITIES income £237k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.