UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS

Registered charity 1187721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

At UWS, our vision is Zero Education Poverty - a world where every child is empowered through education to choose their own future. Our mission is to ensure children in remote and marginalised communities achieve Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Skills - the essential building blocks of lifelong learning.

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £634,451 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £2,241,288. The trustees confirmed that free unrestricted reserves of £1.33m represented over three months of budgeted operating expenditure, meeting the charity's stated reserves policy. The auditor issued an unqualified opinion, confirming the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UWS (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Graeme Hodge — CEO (source)
• Peter Taylor — Executive Chair (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 · linkedin

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Lance Taylorchair
• David Alexander Newbigging
• Isabelle Salabert
• Janet Morris · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lia Larson
• Olivia de Groot
• Raymond Peter Upton
• Ross Cattell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Savin Mao
• Shazia Khawar
• Silvia Shiliashka
• Timothy Huish GALLICO

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

Operates in: Burma · Cambodia · Madagascar · Nepal

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 UNITED WORLD COLLEGES (INTERNATIONAL).

• THE UNITED WORLD COLLEGES (INTERNATIONAL) income £11.7m
• UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION income £180k
• EDUCATION FOR LIFE income £231k
• GLOBAL SCHOOLS FORUM income £2.8m
• AWAMU income £194k
• THEIRWORLD income £7.4m

Side by side with its peers

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