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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING AND IN PARTICULAR:-(A) THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH IN LEADERSHIP, LOYALTY, RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT FOR AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN DIGNITY, LIFE AND RIGHTS AND(B) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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

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

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2025 (received 11/03/2026, 11 days after the 28/02/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00908758
• Trading subsidiary: UWC ENDOWMENT MANAGEMENT LIMITED Companies House 14298175

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)

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.

• SHRESTHA, Jui — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• MACDONALD, Laura — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• WANG, Mark Jiapeng — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• HAWLEY, David — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• HARAYDA, Robert Eric — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• EGAN RUIZ, Maria Cecilia — director, appointed 01/01/2024not on trustee list
• BARDAI, Naheed — director, appointed 01/08/2023on trustee list
• MEIJS, Fleur — director, appointed 13/06/2022on trustee list
• GENBERG, Daniel, Mr. — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• MUHEDINI, Amantia — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• KANYORO, Musimbi Rachel Angogo, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2019on trustee list
• STANNARD, Mary Teresa — secretary, appointed 13/03/2021

Official officers record.

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.

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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 (3.7%) (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
• BAREFOOT COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL UK income £336k
• United Church Schools Trust income £185.2m
• WADHAM COLLEGE income £24.1m
• THE WARWICK DISTRICT U3A income £101k
• WEST LONDON STUDENTS' UNION income £4.1m

Side by side with its peers

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