COMMONWEALTH HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE

Registered charity 803235 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRI

The charity is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is independent and non-partisan and was set up on 2 April 1990. It is governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association and its principal activity continues to be the advancement of human rights throughout the Commonwealth.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS IN THE FIELD OF HUMAN RIGHTS. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.)

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · 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 general unrestricted funds were £41 at year-end, with total funds of £8,732. The trustees consider the charity able to meet its obligations despite a challenging donor environment, though going concern is subject to the availability of funds held for CHRI India.

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 3 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
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/03/2025 (received 08/04/2026, 67 days after the 31/01/2026 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 02488240

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.

• FRANCIS, Cherisse Valcia — director, appointed 30/04/2021on trustee list
• TRIPATHI, Salil — director, appointed 30/04/2021on trustee list
• RATCLIFFE, Hannah Jane — director, appointed 02/07/2020on trustee list
• TUDOR, Owen David — director, appointed 30/04/2019on trustee list
• BARUA, Pralab — director, appointed 01/09/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cherisse Valcia Francis
• Hannah Ratcliffe
• Owen David Tudor
• Pralab Barua
• Salil Tripathi

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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