UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS

Registered charity 1187721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q22813029

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.

Objects

3. Objects The objects of the CIO are: To advance education by such means as the trustees may consider appropriate, including by means of establishing and operating: any educational establishment or establishments in Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal and Madagascar; and in such other parts of the world as the trustees may from time to time think fit and to fulfil such other purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the law of England and Wales and are connected with the charitable work of the trust.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

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.

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
• 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
• 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.

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 31/12/2022 (received 01/11/2023, 1 day after the 31/10/2023 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.

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.

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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 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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
• 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

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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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
• WORLD VILLAGES FOR CHILDREN income £2.2m
• United Church Schools Trust income £185.2m
• UNITED KINGDOM & EUROPE WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION income £229k
• WORLD VISION UK income £66.1m
• WISDOM SCHOOL income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

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