CPA CHARITABLE FUNDS
Charity number: 263147
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
To help achieve its objectives, the CPACF provides funding for charitable activities including: Technical Assistance Programmes; Conferences to share knowledge and best practice; Grants for parliaments to make their buildings and activities accessible for persons with disabilities.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2024
Total income: £469,280
Total expenditure: £3,214,698
Total income includes £157,561 from 1 government grant(s)
People
5 Trustee(s)
3 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
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
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
How the charity helps:
- Provides Other Finance
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- Throughout England And Wales
- Anguilla
- Antigua And Barbuda
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands
- Cook Islands
- Cyprus
- Dominica
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Grenada
- Guernsey
- Guyana
- India
- Isle Of Man
- Jamaica
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Montserrat
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Northern Ireland
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena
- Saint Vincent
- Samoa
- Scotland
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Solomon Islands
- Sri Lanka
- St Kitts And Nevis
- St Lucia
- Tanzania
- Tonga
- Trinidad And Tobago
- Turks And Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Zambia
Governance
Registration history:
- 22 October 1971: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
- C P A (Previous name)
- COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Not 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
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
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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| Hon Syed Naveed Qamar | Trustee | 08 November 2024 |
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| Dr Keshava Sudhakar MP | Trustee | 08 November 2024 |
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| Lyndon Sean Trott Hon | Trustee | 08 November 2024 |
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| Hon Joy Marie Burch | Trustee | 08 November 2024 |
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| Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu MP | Trustee | 08 November 2024 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | 31/12/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £2.64m | £2.61m | £2.79m | £3.11m | £469.28k | |
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Total expenditure | £1.55m | £1.83m | £2.97m | £3.21m | £3.21m | |
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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 | £68.14k | £157.56k | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £2.44m | £2.47m | £2.59m | £2.79m | N/A | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Income - Investment | £196.69k | £140.85k | £188.51k | £306.10k | N/A | |
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Income - Other | £329 | £1.58k | £6.30k | £6.36k | N/A | |
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Income - Legacies | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £1.50m | £1.78m | £2.91m | £3.17m | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £49.73k | £52.76k | £54.51k | £49.09k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £128.11k | £38.21k | £90.49k | £94.86k | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | N/A | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £49.73k | £52.76k | £54.51k | £49.09k | 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 December 2024 | 11 September 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2024 | 11 September 2025 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 20 June 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 20 June 2024 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 26 October 2023 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 26 October 2023 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 28 October 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 28 October 2022 | On time | |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 23 September 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 23 September 2021 | On time |