Registered charity · London
The UK Friends of Sumbandila Scholarship Trust
- 5 trustees
- Income £144k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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
- General Charitable Purposes
- Where
- South Africa
- Website
- www.sumbandila.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2020
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£144k£180k
- 2024£89k£46k
- 2023£45k£402
Earlier years
- 2022£0£0
Income trend, 2022 to 2025.
Charitable objects
THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE TRUST FUND AND ITS INCOME ON TRUST TO APPLY THEM IN SUCH PROPORTIONS AND IN SUCH MANNER IN ALL RESPECTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND, IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING), THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN RESPECT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.
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.
5 trustees on the board
- Leigh Bristow Chair since 2020
- Antoinette Vanderpuije since 2023
- Douglas Richard Hoernle since 2020
- Emma Vernetti since 2023
- Kathleen Tara Cranswick since 2026
Trustees past 6 years
- Leigh Bristow Chair since 2020
- Douglas Richard Hoernle since 2020
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (5)
- Leigh Bristow Chair since 2020
- Antoinette Vanderpuije since 2023
- Douglas Richard Hoernle since 2020
- Emma Vernetti since 2023
- Kathleen Tara Cranswick since 2026
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
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
- 1190936
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED DATED 12 MAY 2020
- Contact on the register
- 0155160251 · lbristow@sumbandila.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 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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