THE BRITISH SCHOLARSHIP TRUST (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO, NORTH MACEDONIA, SERBIA)

Registered charity 1198302 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BST

The charity makes grants to students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia enabling them to study in the UK. Typically the grants are for postgraduate study trips to British universities or other higher education / research institutions and cover living costs and some other expenses for a period of one to three months.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE EDUCATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY UNDER THE AGE OF 30 YEARS WHO ARE RESIDENT IN THE COUNTRIES OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, CROATIA, KOSOVO, MONTENEGRO, NORTH MACEDONIA AND SERBIA. THE CIO WILL DO THIS BY AWARDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO ENABLE SUCH PERSONS TO UNDERTAKE SHORT PERIODS OF RESEARCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AT ANY UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, OR OTHER INSTITUTION OF FURTHER EDUCATION (INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL) APPROVED FOR THE PURPOSE BY THE TRUSTEES.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £414,191, which the trustees state are sufficient to cover expected operating expenditure for the foreseeable future. The total net assets increased to £1,562,741, driven by investment gains and incoming resources exceeding charitable expenditure. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cathie Carmichaelchair
• CELIA HAWKESWORTH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Camilla Persephone Lenox Marzouk
• Dr Alun Thomas
• Dr MARK THOMPSON
• Dr RADMILA MILEUSNIC
• Dr Tanja Radu
• Kenneth Morrison
• SANJA BOSAK

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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