BRIGHTER START
Charity number: 1131251
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Brighter Start raises funds in the UK to help charities, groups and individuals in sub-Saharan Africa to improve education for young people under 25, and to relieve poverty or financial hardship to enable young people to benefit from education.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 30 June 2024
Total income: £22,959
Total expenditure: £12,112
People
4 Trustee(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
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Services
Where the charity operates:
- Malawi
- South Africa
Governance
Registration history:
- 20 August 2009: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Trust
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Complaints handling
- Conflicting interests
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- 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
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| Dr SIMON THOMAS MURDOCH | Chair |
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| ANDREW GWYNNE ASHE | Trustee |
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| FRANCESCA JANE SMITH | Trustee |
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| DANIELLE CAROLINE MURDOCH | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 30/06/2020 | 30/06/2021 | 30/06/2022 | 30/06/2023 | 30/06/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £24.53k | £8.11k | £19.98k | £12.58k | £22.96k | |
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Total expenditure | £22.94k | £13.00k | £17.03k | £16.52k | £12.11k | |
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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 |
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 | 30 June 2024 | 20 April 2025 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2024 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 30 June 2023 | 27 April 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2023 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 30 June 2022 | 18 April 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2022 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 30 June 2021 | 20 April 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2021 | Not Required | ||
| Annual return | 30 June 2020 | 11 May 2021 | 11 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 30 June 2020 | Not Required |