GLOBAL SCHOOLS FORUM

Registered charity 1195542 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Global Schools Forum (GSF) works to strengthen global education through supporting non-state organisations in developing countries who serve children from low-income backgrounds. We are a community united by a common vision of a world in which all children are able to access quality education.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £246,106 for the year, resulting in a total fund balance of £1,874,820 at year-end. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £422,267, which represents 3.5 months of operating costs against a policy target of three to six months. The charity relies almost exclusively on multi-year grant funding from private foundations to support its operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13076524

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kimberly Gire — Chair (source)
• Aashti Zaidi Hai — Founder and Advisor (source)
• Philippa Frankl — Operations Director (source)
• Kavita Rajagopalan — Programme Director (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.

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.

• SEFU, Anne Achola — director, appointed 19/11/2025on trustee list
• PRICE, Prescott Edwin — director, appointed 27/02/2025on trustee list
• GIRE, Kimberly Ann — director, appointed 03/04/2024on trustee list
• SKIDMORE, Paul Joseph — director, appointed 13/07/2021on trustee list
• GARDNER, Corina Rose — director, appointed 11/12/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 3.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Achola Sefu
• Corina Rose Gardner
• Kimberly Gire
• Prescott Price

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

Operates in: Brazil · Cameroon · Ghana · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Nepal · Nigeria · Pakistan · Rwanda · Sierra Leone · South Africa

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS.

• UNITED WORLD SCHOOLS income £5.2m
• DHS Educational Foundation income £1.6m
• OneSchool Global UK income £55.5m
• THE GSR FOUNDATION income £3.1m
• TRAINING AND RESEARCH GLOBAL EDUCATION TRUST income £280k
• CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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