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Registered charity · London

The United World Colleges (International)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £12m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Armenia, Bosnia And Herzegovina, Canada and more
Website
www.uwc.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The United World Colleges (International)
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£12m£8.8m
  • 2024£9.2m£9.4m
  • 2023£8.6m£5.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£6.5m£5.2m
  • 2021£6.3m£5.7m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING AND IN PARTICULAR:-(A) THE EDUCATION OF YOUTH IN LEADERSHIP, LOYALTY, RESPONSIBILITY AND RESPECT FOR AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN DIGNITY, LIFE AND RIGHTS AND(B) THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION IN EDUCATION.

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.

11 trustees on the board

2.6y median 2y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

11
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 11

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 12Health and social care 2Other services 2

Gaps to watch

  • 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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

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£11.7m latest income
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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.8 in 2021

36 from 27 in 2021
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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
313690
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM & ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 19/6/1967 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS ON 15 /10/ 1967, 2 / 7/ 1969, 14 / 7/ 1971, 25 /10/ 1991, 9 /10/ 2001, 25/10/ 2008 & CERTIFICATES OF CHANGE OF NAME DATED 16/ 7/1969 & 12/01/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/01/2015AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 OCT 2017 as amended on 29 Nov 2018 as amended on 08 Sep 2020 as amended on 12 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 00908758 · Active
Contact on the register
02072697800 · info@uwcio.uwc.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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