BRIGHTER PATH

Registered charity 1183507 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Brighter Path raises money to provide grants to care leavers in Sri Lanka. We provide accommodation, pay for training and education, living expenses, clothes, transport, healthcare, and mentoring.

Objects

TO ADVANCE IN LIFE AND RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN SRI LANKA, WHO BY REASON OF NATURAL DISASTER, POVERTY, DESTITUTION, BEREAVEMENT, THE ILL HEALTH OF OTHERS, THEIR OWN ILL HEALTH OR FOR ANY OTHER REASON, ARE LIVING IN OR HAVE LIVED IN RESIDENTIAL CARE OR UNDER THE CARE OF OTHERS WHO ARE NOT THEIR PARENTS, BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND MONETARY GRANTS WITH A VIEW TO ENSURING THESE PEOPLE ARE EQUIPPED WITH THE NECESSARY SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS.

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 · Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in good financial health with unrestricted reserves of £16,885.96, supported by a significant increase in donations to £53,023.58. Expenditure on grants totaled £48,341.76, resulting in a net resource increase for the year. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the financial statements.

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 4 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.

• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline de Bonochair
• ALICE PILCHER
• HENRIETTA WOOLF
• JOHN DE BONO QC
• PATRICK MARSHALL

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

Operates in: Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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