THE UNITED WORLD COLLEGES (INTERNATIONAL)

Registered charity 313690 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNITED WORLD COLLEGES (INTERNATIONAL) LTD, UWC (INTERNATIONAL), UWC INTERNATIONAL OFFICE, UWCIO

UWC MAKES EDUCATION A FORCE TO UNITE PEOPLE, NATIONS AND CULTURES FOR PEACE AND A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. UWC SEEKS TO ACHIEVE THIS THROUGH 18 UWC SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES WORLDWIDE AND UWC NATIONAL COMMITTEES IN OVER 150 COUNTRIES.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free unrestricted reserves were £5,158,000, which is above the charity's stated policy target of £1,906,000 (six months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure). The charity reported a net income increase to £2,843,000 and holds a total cash balance of £7,910,000, indicating strong liquidity and financial stability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The United World Colleges (International) Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro — Chair of the Board (source)
• Faith Abiodun — Executive Director (source)
• Cecilia Egan — Vice-Chair of the Board (source)
• Bob Harayda — Treasurer of the Board (source)
• Manolo Espinosa — Chair of UWC International Council (source)
• Mary Stannard — Finance Director (source)
• Radha Pillay — Director of Education (source)
• Delphine Poschmann — Director of Development and Funded Programmes (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• Shelby and Gale Davis — “The Davis UWC Scholars Program For 25 years, our longest-running university partnership has supported eligible UWC graduates to study at ove…” (source page)
• The LivGlobal Foundation — “The LivGlobal Foundation” (source page)
• Bianca Vetter Foundation — “Bianca Vetter Foundation” (source page)
• Careduca-UWC Scholarship Programme — “Careduca-UWC Scholarship Programme” (source page)
• Global Fund for Women — “Global Fund for Women-UWC partnership” (source page)
• Andresen-UWC Norway Anniversary Fund — “Andresen-UWC Norway Anniversary Fund” (source page)
• The Horizon Foundation — “The Horizon Foundation: Horizon-UWC Scholars Programme” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Musimbi Kanyorochair
• Amantia Muhedini
• Daniel GENBERG
• David Hawley
• Fleur Meijs
• Jui Shrestha
• Laura MacDonald
• Maria Cecilia Egan Ruiz
• Mark Jiapeng Wang
• Naheed Bardai
• Robert Harayda

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

Operates in: Armenia · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Canada · China · Colombia · Costa Rica · Eswatini · Germany · Hong Kong · India · Italy · Japan

Income and spending

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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
• THE UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC LIMITED income £20.2m
• UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION income £2.4m
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE SCHOOL income £36.3m
• INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE ORGANIZATION (UK) LIMITED income £26.7m
• LONDON INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION income £102k

Side by side with its peers

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