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Registered charity · Surrey

University of Cape Town Trust

  • 14 trustees
  • Income £1.8m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
Education/training, Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Where
South Africa
Website
www.ucttrust.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1990

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.8m£1.5m
  • 2024£708k£607k
  • 2023£408k£479k
Earlier years
  • 2022£453k£475k
  • 2021£650k£679k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN IN SUCH MANNER AS SHALL BE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME (AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAPETOWN) DETERMINE.

Grants received

1 grant · £10,000 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

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.

7.1y median 5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

Portfolio (3)

1
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 14Overseas Aid/famine Relief 14Other Charitable Purposes 1

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

Other services 1

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£708k 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.

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

0
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
803042
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 5TH MARCH 1990 as amended on 15 Jun 2011 as amended on 25 Nov 2021
Contact on the register
02083909133 · sam@ucttrust.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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