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THE ROUND SQUARE

Registered charity 327117 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROUND SQUARE, THE ROUND SQUARE CONFERENCE

Educational, organisation of International Student ConferenceOrganisation of student projects throughout the World. Promote IDEALS in member schools throughout the World.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£2.1m
Latest spending
£2.1m
Registered
1986
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income of £2,122,998 exceeded total expenditure of £2,111,202, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £431,587, which the trustees note is above their stated policy target of £341,307 in free reserves. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £150,001 - £160,000 — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median £70k)
“£150,000 - £160,000 1 0” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Subscription income (66% of income)
“Subscription income 1,406,393” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: £341,307 in free reserves (held: £432k)
“The aim of the policy is that Round Square should hold £341,307 in free reserves (unrestricted funds not tied up in fixed assets or designated).” — page 9
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustees received reimbursed travel expenses.
“The Round Square Board of Trustees received £3,330 reimbursed travel expenses relating to the work of the Charity during the reported year (2024: £3,259). There were no transactions with trustees in the year.” — page 23
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Villars Hayward LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Total income
£2.1m
Total spending
£2.1m
Reserves (reported)
£792k
Employees
8

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Bangladesh · Bermuda · Cambodia · Canada · Cayman Islands · Chile · China · Colombia · Denmark

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£2.1m£2.1m
31/07/2024£1.5m£1.6m
31/07/2023£2.9m£2.9m
31/07/2022£1.1m£1.1m
31/07/2021£1.1m£997k

Common questions

Is THE ROUND SQUARE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income of £2,122,998 exceeded total expenditure of £2,111,202, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £431,587, which the trustees note is above their stated policy target of £341,307 in free reserves. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Villars Hayward LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE ROUND SQUARE earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £150,001 - £160,000 band.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE INFLEXION FOUNDATION1£1.7m
AKO FOUNDATION1£650k
THE NORMAN TRUST1£392k
THE MASTER CHARITABLE TRUST1£375k
THE FIDELITY UK FOUNDATION1£330k
VERONICA AND LARS BANE FOUNDATION CIO1£259k
THE PRUDENCE TRUST1£180k
THE LINBURY TRUST1£150k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE ROUND SQUARE£2.1m£150,001 - £160,000—above—no doubt
SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FY2025£879k£70,001 - £80,000—within—no doubt
ROUNDABOUT (WEST MIDLANDS) LIMITED FY2025£290k—0above—no doubt
OXFORD ROUND TABLE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£173k—0above107.9%no doubt
THE ROUNDHOUSE TRUST FY2025£16.6m—11below—no doubt
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK FY2024£1.1m—0below11.0%no doubt

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