The Queen Elizabeth II Commonwealth Trust
Charity number: 1172107
Charity reporting is up to date (5 days late)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The Queen's Commonwealth Trust champions, funds and connects young leaders who are working hard to change the world. We share their stories, give them a platform to amplify their ideas, and inspire others to join in.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £242,742
Total expenditure: £333,771
People
5 Trustee(s)
10 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Antigua And Barbuda
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana
- Brunei
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Eswatini
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guyana
- India
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Saint Vincent
- Samoa
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- St Kitts And Nevis
- St Lucia
- Tanzania
- The Bahamas
- Tonga
- Trinidad And Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
Governance
Registration history:
- 16 March 2017: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:
- QCT (Working name)
- THE QUEEN'S COMMONWEALTH TRUST (Previous name)
Company number:
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- 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
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
5 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| Stephen Ball | Chair | 26 January 2023 |
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| Jonathan Andrews | Trustee | 03 July 2025 |
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| Ameer Kotecha | Trustee | 29 June 2023 |
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| Aneeta Williams | Trustee | 03 August 2020 |
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| Janette Carole Wilkinson | Trustee | 01 May 2019 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £796.11k | £980.23k | £1.06m | £803.56k | £242.74k | |
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Total expenditure | £1.53m | £1.69m | £1.65m | £1.32m | £333.77k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £761.82k | £946.77k | £1.03m | £773.46k | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £34.29k | £33.46k | £35.73k | £30.09k | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £1.22m | £1.38m | £1.34m | £1.07m | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £304.08k | £304.24k | £311.58k | £253.37k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £103.70k | £102.59k | £135.72k | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £415.99k | £397.19k | £318.75k | £50.00k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £2.22k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 05 February 2026 | 5 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 05 February 2026 | 5 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 21 January 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | 21 January 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 26 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 26 January 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 04 November 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 04 November 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 10 September 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 10 September 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |