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Borien Educational Foundation for Southern Africa (Befsa)

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £30k (2026)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 1 more
Where
Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, South Africa, Gateshead
Website
www.befsa.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2004

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2026£30k£33k
  • 2025£38k£96k
  • 2024£16k£42k
Earlier years
  • 2023£292k£16k
  • 2022£13k£12k

Income trend, 2022 to 2026.

Charitable objects

3.1 FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS, AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE FOUNDER MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BY A LIKE NOTICE DIRECT. WHERE THE FOUNDER HAS NOT, BY 5 APRIL IN THE INCOME TAX YEAR FOLLOWING THAT IN WHICH THE INCOME ARISES, GIVEN A DIRECTION WHICH FULLY DISPOSES OF THE INCOME, THEN SUCH INCOME SHALL BE DISPOSED OF IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUB-CLAUSE 3.2.3.2. SUBJECT TO ANY DIRECTION UNDER CLAUSE 3.1 THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME FOR OR TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF POVERTY AND THE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PEOPLES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, AND PARTICULARLY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA PARTICULARLY THOSE DIS-ADVANTAGED BY THE POLICY OF APARTHEID AND THE AFTER EFFECTS OF THAT POLICY.3.3 SUBJECT TO, AND IN DEFAULT OF ANY DIRECTION UNDER SUB-CLAUSE 3.1, AND INSOFAR AS ANY SUCH DIRECTION IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE INCOME FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND SHALL MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, AT SUCH TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER, AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.

Board analysis

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.

8 trustees on the board

9.7y median 10y
average tenure
22y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 8Education/training 8The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 8

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£38k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1106964
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED ADOPTED 19 OCTOBER 2004AS AMENDED ON 03 AUG 2018
Contact on the register
01993 670601 · keithborien@gmail.com
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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