Academie du Vin Foundation

Registered charity 1180436 CIO Registered since 2018

Operates: Throughout England And Wales, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal

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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.

4 trustees on the board

Ajit Puri since 2020
Nicolas De Santis since 2023
Richard Ivan Stoppard since 2020
Tina Williams since 2020

5.2y median 6y

average tenure

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Richard Ivan Stoppard since 2020
Tina Williams since 2020

5.6y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (2)

Ajit Puri since 2020
Tina Williams since 2020

Portfolio (2)

Nicolas De Santis since 2023
Richard Ivan Stoppard since 2020

company-linked trustees

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

Arts/culture/heritage/science 2Education/training 2

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on the board
Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.

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incomespending£612k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

12.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Related organisations

Moniker Foundation 2 shared trustees

Also active in the same field

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Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Website	www.iwsc.net
Email	tw@theconversionfund.com
Phone	07958758665
Address	4th Floor, 4 St. James's Place, LONDON, SW1A 1NP

Finances

£611,635 latest income

Year	Income	Spending
2021	£45,686	£75,447
2022	£88,449	£239,221
2023	£370,071	£1,732,595
2024	£402,060	£281,025
2025	£611,635	£248,962

What it does

What

Education/trainingThe Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of LivesThe Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

Who

The General Public/mankind

How

Makes Grants To IndividualsMakes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

(1.) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF PERSONS OVER THE AGE OF 16, INCLUDING BY PROVIDING ACCESS TO TRAINING, EDUCATION OR WORK EXPERIENCE FOR THOSE WHO WOULD NOT OTHERWISE HAVE ACCESS TO SUCH OPPORTUNITIES, IN PARTICULAR IN THE STUDY OF WINE AND SPIRITS, VINICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN RELATION TO THE PRODUCTION OF WINES AND SPIRITS. (2) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS, IN PARTICULAR AMONGST THOSE WHO HAVE WORKED IN THE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE INDUSTRY AND IN PARTICULAR ARISING FROM ALCOHOLISM AND ALCOHOL RELATED DISEASES.

Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 25 Oct 2018 as amended on 17 Oct 2023

Trustees (4)

4trustees

0aged 70+

Ajit Puri since 2020
Nicolas De Santis since 2023
Richard Ivan Stoppard since 2020
Tina Williams since 2020

Connected charities (1)

Moniker Foundation 2 shared trustees

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