UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN TRUST

Registered charity 803042 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as U C T TRUST, UCT TRUST

To raise funds and support for the University of Cape Town in South Africa

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN IN SUCH MANNER AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME (AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN) DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £254,237 for the year, with total income rising to £1,770,436 from £707,690 in the prior year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £474,062, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet its policy target of holding three to six months of operating costs. The auditor 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

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 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 policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Paul Kumlebenchair
• Alan David Roux
• CHARLES MCGREGOR
• Dame Judith Macgregor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Bronwyn Gavine
• Dr Paula Constance Walter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Zandile Ndlovu
• Michael Thomas Fargher
• Nhlamulo Dlomu
• PROFESSOR HUGH CORDER
• Professor Mashiko Setshedi
• RICHARD GNODDE
• SIR FRANKLIN BERMAN KCMG KC · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Westwell

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

Operates in: South Africa

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST SOUTH AFRICA.

• CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST SOUTH AFRICA income £191k
• THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND UK TRUST income £31k
• THE UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY NZ TRUST income £7k
• UK FRIENDS OF CAPE TOWN OPERA income £485k
• CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY income £353.8m
• ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES income £8.1m

Side by side with its peers

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