PROFESSORS WITHOUT BORDERS

Registered charity 1189091 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PROWIBO

Our vision is to build a global community of passionate educators dedicated to ensuring relevant, engaging, and holistic higher education experiences worldwide, thereby equipping students around the world with the skills necessary to be inspiring leaders and have a meaningful impact in their communities.

Objects

1. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN EMERGING ECONOMIES, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY OF YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDING OR ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, BY THE PROVISION OF SHORT COURSES AND TRAINING.2. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO ACT AS A RESOURCE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ATTENDING OR ENTERING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN EMERGING ECONOMIES BY PROVIDING ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE AND ORGANISING PROGRAMMES OF EDUCATIONAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES AS A MEANS OF:(A) ADVANCING IN LIFE AND HELPING SUCH YOUNG PEOPLE BY DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES TO ENABLE THEM TO PARTICIPATE IN SOCIETY AS INDEPENDENT, MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE INDIVIDUALS;(B) ADVANCING EDUCATION;(C) RELIEVING UNEMPLOYMENT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net surplus of £3,809 for the year, with unrestricted funds of £42,141 and cash at bank of £48,730. While unrestricted reserves are below the stated policy target of six months' operating expenditure, the trustees note that cash holdings exceed this target, ensuring sufficient liquidity to meet short-term obligations.

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 5 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10075923 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Ashworth Charitable Trust — “Professors Without Borders thanks the following trusts and foundations, for their support of our programmes – The Ashworth Charitable Trust,…” (source page)
• The Coles-Medlock Foundation — “Professors Without Borders thanks the following trusts and foundations, for their support of our programmes – The Ashworth Charitable Trust,…” (source page)
• The Eleanor Rathbone Charitable Trust — “Professors Without Borders thanks the following trusts and foundations, for their support of our programmes – The Ashworth Charitable Trust,…” (source page)
• The Merriman Charitable Foundation — “Professors Without Borders thanks the following trusts and foundations, for their support of our programmes – The Ashworth Charitable Trust,…” (source page)
• The Rainford Trust — “Professors Without Borders thanks the following trusts and foundations, for their support of our programmes – The Ashworth Charitable Trust,…” (source page)
• Ford Credit — “Ford Credit supported our pilot Entrepreneurship Bootcamp with both material support and volunteering from their executive team.” (source page)
• BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt — “BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt was founded in 1970 to honour the entrepreneur’s achievements in rescuing the vehicle manufacturer from bankru…” (source page)

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.

• TREADWAY, Carlos — director, appointed 24/01/2025on trustee list
• PATTANI, Kinna — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• LOUGHLIN-CHOW, Mary Clare, Dr — director, appointed 26/07/2024on trustee list
• NORREGAARD, Pernille — director, appointed 24/07/2024on trustee list
• THOMAS, Peter James, Dr — director, appointed 21/04/2023on trustee list
• DENTON, Andrew Warren — director, appointed 10/08/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Dentonchair
• Carlos Treadway
• Dr Mary Clare Loughlin-Chow
• Dr Peter James Thomas
• Kinna Pattani
• Pernille Norregaard

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

Operates in: India · Senegal · Sierra Leone · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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