JOHN SPEAK FOUNDATION FOREIGN LANGUAGES SCHOLARSHIPS TRUST FUND

Registered charity 529115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JOHN SPEAK TRUST

To assist students who wish to reside in foreign countries in order to improve their knowledge of foreign languages for business purposes. Assistance is given in the form of grants.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES AMONGST BRITISH CITIZENS, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY PROVIDING BURSARIES.

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.

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Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £514,281, with the trustee expressing confidence that future income and retained reserves will enable the charity to meet its foreseeable needs. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £36,345 for the year, driven by significant investment gains and a large donation, resulting in a healthy financial position with no stated reserves policy target to breach.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 31/03/2023 (received 11/03/2024, 40 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WEST & NORTH YORKSHIRE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION UK.

• ST JOSEPH FOUNDATION UK income £474k
• PREMIER LEARNING income £85k
• THE JOSEPH TRUST income £131k
• ULTING OVERSEAS TRUST income £84k
• A S HORNBY EDUCATIONAL TRUST CIO income £326k
• ENGLISH- SPEAKING UNION OF THE COMMONWEALTH income £2.6m

Side by side with its peers

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