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Registered charity (CIO) · Romsey

The Cowrie Scholarship Foundation

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £463k (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Website
www.cowriescholarshipfoundation.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2020

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£463k£244k
  • 2024£300k£322k
  • 2023£232k£208k
Earlier years
  • 2022£205k£109k
  • 2021£116k£22k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO RELIEVE POVERTY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT NECESSARILY EXCLUSIVELY, TO SOCIO-ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BRITISH STUDENTS, WITH AN ETHNICITY FROM AFRICAN, CARRIBEAN AND MIXED WITH ONE OF THESE ETHNICITIES, WISHING TO UNDERTAKE A COURSE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, WITH LEADING UNIVERSITIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, WHICH THEY WOULD OTHERWISE NOT BE ABLE TO UNDERTAKE.

Grants received

3 grants · £25,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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Board analysis for researchers

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.

9 trustees on the board

2.7y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

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

Disability 9Education/training 9General Charitable Purposes 9

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on 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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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£463k latest income

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1191471
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 25 Sep 2020
Contact on the register
07833437591 · info@cowriescholarshipfoundation.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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