COMMONWEALTH GIRLS EDUCATION FUND (CGEF)

Charity Number: 1048908
Charity reporting is up to date (29 days late)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

The CGEF provides sponsorship grants to girls for secondary or high school education in their own Commonwealth country in cases where this might otherwise not be possible. Support is tailored to the individual needs of each girl based on academic potential, merit and need.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income: £115,985
Total expenditure: £92,097

People

10 Trustee(s)

20 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

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:
  • Education/training
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout London

Governance

Registration history:
  • 29 August 1995: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
  • C C L EDUCATION FUND (Working name)
  • COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES LEAGUE EDUCATION FUND (Previous name)
  • COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES LEAGUE EDUCATION FUND (CCLEF) (Previous name)
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
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media 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

10 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
ROXANNE ST CLAIR Chair 01 April 2014
None on record
Evadney Campbell MBE Trustee 01 April 2025
POLLARDS HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
Received: On time
Kitty Forster-Lewis Trustee 01 April 2025
None on record
Clara Soto-Service Trustee 07 December 2022
None on record
Ladi Mudakai Dariya MSc. ACMI Trustee 09 September 2021
None on record
Bea Hemming Trustee 01 October 2017
None on record
Noreen Burroughes-Cesareo Trustee 01 April 2016
None on record
VIMAL SHAH Trustee 01 April 2016
None on record
JAGRAVI UPADHYAY Trustee 29 September 2015
None on record
RITA ODUMOSU Trustee 01 April 2014
COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION IN THE COMMONWEALTH
Received: On time

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 31/03/2020 31/03/2021 31/03/2022 31/03/2023 31/03/2024
Total gross income £88.53k £204.12k £58.33k £51.17k £115.99k
Total expenditure £97.99k £69.47k £79.51k £96.13k £92.10k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A 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
Annual return 31 March 2024 01 March 2025 29 days late
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2024 01 March 2025 29 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2023 18 January 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2023 18 January 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2022 24 January 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2022 24 January 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2021 31 January 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2021 31 January 2022 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 31 March 2020 23 January 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 31 March 2020 23 January 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

RULES ADOPTED 1 MAY 1995 AS AMENDED 4TH JULY 2000 AND 27 JUNE 2007. AS AMENDED ON 04 DEC 2015 AS AMENDED ON 28 APR 2015 AS AMENDED ON 05 JUL 2016 AS AMENDED ON 06 DEC 2016

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS (A) SPONSOR THE SECONDARY EDUCATION OF CAPABLE COMMONWEALTH GIRLS IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY SUBJECT TO ANNUAL ASSESSMENT (B) PAY FOR THE SPECIAL TRAINING IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY OF CAPABLE COMMONWEALTH GIRLS OF SECONDARY SCHOOL AGE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES (C) ADMINISTER SPECIAL FUNDS FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

NOT DEFINED

Contact information

Address:
PSJ Alexander & Co
1 Doughty Street
LONDON
WC1N 2PH
Phone:
+44 (0) 7957793730
Email:
AdminSec@cgefund.org
Website:

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