BRITISH FOUNDATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

Charity number: 1127408
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

Fund-raising through events and accepting donations from benefactors

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 30 December 2023

Total income: £313,978
Total expenditure: £49,060

People

7 Trustee(s)

6 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No information available

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
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
  • Overseas Aid/famine Relief
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
  • Environment/conservation/heritage
  • Economic/community Development/employment
Who the charity helps:
  • Children/young People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Makes Grants To Organisations
  • Provides Human Resources
  • Provides Services
  • Provides Advocacy/advice/information
  • Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout London
  • Antigua And Barbuda
  • Barbados
  • Belize
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Saint Vincent
  • St Kitts And Nevis
  • St Lucia
  • The Bahamas
  • Trinidad And Tobago

Governance

Registration history:
  • 07 January 2009: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Charitable company
Other names:

No other names

Company number:
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Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

7 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
Martin Forde KC Trustee 14 November 2024
WEST INDIA COMMITTEE
Received: On time
Lewitt Nurse Trustee 14 November 2024
None on record
Dawn Brathwaite Trustee 07 November 2024
None on record
Vindelyn Smith-Hillman Trustee 06 November 2024
None on record
Rawle Eusi Parris Trustee 22 January 2014
None on record
Dr Mark David Richards Trustee 22 January 2014
None on record
Elizabeth Mullings-Smith Trustee
None on record

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 30/12/2019 30/12/2020 30/12/2021 30/12/2022 30/12/2023
Total gross income £2.77k £2.77k £4.98k £1.26k £313.98k
Total expenditure £1.51k £1.51k £10.37k £305 £49.06k
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 30 December 2023 30 October 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2023 30 October 2024 On Time
Annual return 30 December 2022 26 October 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2022 Not Required
Annual return 30 December 2021 28 October 2022 On Time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2021 Not Required
Annual return 30 December 2020 09 September 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2020 Not Required
Annual return 30 December 2019 09 June 2021 222 days late
Accounts and TAR 30 December 2019 Not Required
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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.

MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 7 NOVEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED 21 DECEMBER 2008

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE TERTIARY EDUCATION OF STUDENTS IN THE CARIBBEAN BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, FACILITIES AND OTHER RESOURCES TO THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES OR ITS SUCCESSOR.

Area of benefit

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

OVERSEAS

Contact information

Address:
BARBADOS HOUSE
Barbados High Commission
1 Great Russell Street
LONDON
WC1B 3ND
Phone:
02072997167
Email:
admin@thebfuwi.org
Website:

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