THE AMOS BURSARY

Registered charity 1185117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Amos Bursary promotes equality and diversity and advancement of education ( including social and career development training ) for the public benefit of young people of African and Caribbean heritage.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £285,691 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £1,067,909. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,772,723, which exceeds the stated policy target of holding at least 12 months' worth of operational expenditure. The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources to meet its commitments.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Adomako Basoah & Co.. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Amos Bursary (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Baroness Amos of Brondesbury — Co-founder and Patron (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~42.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 14.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sarah Elizabeth Ebanjachair
• Colleen Althea Amos
• Hlakanyane Sipo Michael Zwambila
• Pamela Patricia Gill Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Butler

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

Operates in: Throughout London

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 AMECA TRUST.

• THE AMECA TRUST income £105k
• AMOS TRUST income £2.6m
• THE CHOIR SCHOOLS ASSOCIATION BURSARY TRUST LIMITED income £322k
• AFRICAN CARIBBEAN ACHIEVEMENT PROJECT income £165k
• CLS BURSARY AND AWARDS FUND income £167k
• CLASS 13 CIO income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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