Registered charity · London
Wits Foundation UK
- 6 trustees
- Income £59k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- William Henry Frankel OBE FrssaChair
- Adam Mahomed HabibTrustee · since 2013
- Professor Colin James BundyTrustee
- Professor Imraan Abdul Kader ValodiaTrustee · since 2025
- Professor Zeblon Zenzele VilakaziTrustee · since 2020
- SIR David Anthony KingTrustee
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Linked company
- Wits Foundation UK
- Registered
- 2001
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£59k£44k
- 2024£74k£78k
- 2023£148k£158k
Earlier years
- 2022£302k£264k
- 2021£124k£96k
Charitable objects
SUCH GENERAL OBJECTS AS ARE CHARITABLE AT LAW AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING WORDS) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND IN PARTICULAR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WITWATERSRAND IN SOUTH AFRICA.
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Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
6 trustees on the board
Trustees past 6 years
- Adam Mahomed Habib since 2013
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Adam Mahomed Habib since 2013
- Professor Colin James Bundy
- Professor Zeblon Zenzele Vilakazi since 2020
- SIR David Anthony King
Portfolio (2)
- William Henry Frankel OBE Frssa Chair
- Professor Imraan Abdul Kader Valodia since 2025
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1087539
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 15 MAY, 2001.
- Companies House
- Company number 04217424 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 02074355657 · billfrankel@kayacomm.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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