ENGLISH SPEAKING BOARD (INTERNATIONAL) LIMITED

Registered charity 272565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as E S B

The English Speaking Board as a charitable organisation has a mission to promote clear, effective oral communication at all levels by providing high quality assessments, training and services in the UK and overseas, recognising and encouraging the potential of all. In planning their activities the Trustees have kept in mind the charity commissioners' guidance on public benefit.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss for the year of £66,392, resulting in a decrease in total funds carried forward to £1,265,378. The trustees maintain that free reserves of £808,619 are above their stated policy target of eight to ten months of operational fixed expenditure, estimated at £550,000. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements 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 audited by Mitchell Charlesworth (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01269980

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.

• OLANIYI, Nkaepe, Dr — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• LIU, Ximei — director, appointed 22/06/2026on trustee list
• MAY, Edward Paul Stanley — director, appointed 13/01/2025on trustee list
• MCATEAR (CHAIRPERSON), James, Dr — director, appointed 21/09/2023not on trustee list
• VIT (VICE-CHAIR), Jason Paul — director, appointed 21/09/2023not on trustee list
• JARJUE, Joanna — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• LOW, Damian — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• BROWN, Daniel Anthony — director, appointed 02/10/2021on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Frances Deirdre — director, appointed 19/08/2020on trustee list
• LEARY, Carolanne — secretary, appointed 20/09/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr James McAtearchair
• Damian Low
• Daniel Brown
• Dr Nkaepe Olaniyi
• Edward Paul Stanley May
• Frances Deirdre Richardson
• Jason Paul Vit
• Joanna Jarjue
• Ximei Liu

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH.

• ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH income £2.6m
• THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION income £245k
• The English Language Centre income £6.8m
• ENGLISH UK LIMITED income £1.5m
• A S HORNBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST CIO income £326k
• ESPERANTO-ASOCIO DE BRITIO income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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