INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 270860 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ENGLISH LANGUAGE SERVICES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

The Charity exists for the advancement of the education of the public in languages. Its object are realised principally through International House London, an internationally reputed language school. Its main activities are the teaching of English and the teaching of other Modern Languages and the training of language teachers.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a modest surplus of £81,000 in 2024, with total funds increasing to £8,193,000. The trustees consider the current levels of free reserves and cash to be adequate, citing strong cash flow from advance course fees and a history of generating trading surpluses.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark Rendell — CEO (source)
• Natasha Traynor — Commercial Director (source)
• Caroline Turner — Director of Operations (source)
• Jason White — Director of Examinations (source)
• Arif Kaji — Director of Finance (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Phillip Mark Huggonchair
• Benjamin James Beaumont
• Christian Staral
• Christopher Graham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Hughes
• Isabel DiVanna
• Maria Isabella la Forgia
• Samantha Louise Grainger
• Tomasz Adam Mazgaj
• Vincenzo Raimo

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Camden

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The English Language Centre.

• The English Language Centre income £6.8m
• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS HOUSE income £7.5m
• LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LONDRES income £13.9m
• IOL EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £537k
• The International Medical Education Trust income £770k
• IRSHAD TRUST income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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