## **The Wilberforce Society**
Website: thewilberforcesociety.co.uk Registered Charity No: 1169450 Annual Report and Accounts Year ended 31 August 2024
## **The Wilberforce Society**
The Wilberforce Society (“ **TWS** ”) is a registered charity, governed by its Trustees. The Trustees hereby submit TWS’s Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 August 2024.
## **Trustees**
George Bangham (Chair) Jemima Baar Rose Beale (resigned 13 November 2024) Michael Campbell Nicholas Crawford Moni Owoade George Stokes
## **Trustees’ Responsibilities**
The Trustees are responsible for preparing the Annual Report and Accounts in accordance with applicable charity law. The trustees have given consideration to the major risks to which the charity is exposed and satisfied themselves that appropriate procedures are in place to manage those risks.
## **Objects**
The governing instrument is the Constitution, which came into effect in July 2015. The object of The Wilberforce Society is to advance the education of students and of the public more generally for the public benefit, in particular but not exclusively by:
- 1) promoting the discussion, the consideration of, and research into matters of public life or importance;
- 2) publishing results of research and discussion on matters of public life or importance;
- 3) hosting educational events including, but not limited to, conferences and lectures on topics of public life or importance; and
- 4) providing opportunities to encourage the exchange of ideas.
The Trustees have given consideration to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance and are satisfied that each of the activities detailed in this Annual Report and Accounts meet the public benefit requirement in advancing the education of students and of the public at large.
## **Trustees’ Report**
The Society had a successful year in 2023-24, under the leadership of Eunice Chong and Eliška Hauferova as successive Executive Chairs. A well-attended annual conference was held at the Cambridge Union in February 2024, and policy papers published on topics including sustainable development and asylum inequalities. The society’s successful policy podcast has grown its audience. A collaboration with the international On Think Tanks network has proved fruitful, with TWS sending delegates to an OTT conference in July and collaborating on policy topics including democratic backsliding and the housing crisis. Lastly, the society has made significant progress in building and formalising its alumni network, which now holds regular events in London.
**Charity Name THE WILBERFORCE SOCIETY**
**No (if any) 1169450**
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**to the nearest £**
**For the period**
**from**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
~~re ~~||Period start date
Sep-23
**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**
~~ee~~||**To**
**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**||Period end date
Aug-24
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**||||||||
|Paypal Memberships|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Manual Memberships|**819**||**-**||**-**||**819**|
|Event Income|**644**||**-**||**-**||**644**|
|CUDAR(alumni)donations|**206**||**-**||**-**||**206**|
|Misc|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|Branded ClothingPayments|**240**||**-**||**-**||**240**|
|Grants|**2,713**||**-**||**-**||**2,713**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**4,623**
_(Gross income for AR)_||||**-**||||**-**||||**4,623**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**(see table).**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 4,623**
**-**
**-**
**4,623**
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||||
|Speaker Costs||||**110**||||**-**||||**-**||||**110**|
|Subscriptions(Zoom, Wix, etc.)||||**501**||||**-**||||**-**||||**501**|
|Entertainment||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Branded ClothingPayments||||**383**||||**-**||||**-**||||**383**|
|Publicity||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Event Refund||||**1,421**||||**-**||||**-**||||**1,421**|
|Misc||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Admin(SumUp)||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
_**Sub total**_ **[ 2][,][414 ] - - 2,414 A4 Asset and investment** Purchase of Fixed Asset **-** _**Sub total**_ **[ - ] - - -** ~~SSS~~ _**Total payments**_ **2,414 - -** ~~—~~ **2,414** _**Net of receipts/(payments)**_ **[ 2][,][209 ] - - 2,209 A5 Transfers between funds - - - - A6 Cash funds last year end 8,856 - - 8,856** _**Cash funds this year end**_ ~~SS~~ **[ 11][,][065 ] - -** ~~4~~ **11,065**
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
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|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Current Account Balance
PayPal Balance
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**6,719**
**4,401**
**-**
**11,120**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
~~**asset belongs**~~
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**Restricted**
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|Signature
George Bangham|Print Name|
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||George Bangham|
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## **CC16a**
**Last year to the nearest £**
**705 355 225 89 123 - - 1,496**
**-**
**1,496**
**511 - - - 102 25 - 638**
**638 858 - 7,998 8,856**
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## **Endowment**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
## OK
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value** ~~**(optional)**~~ **-**
**Current value** ~~**(optional)**~~
## **When due**
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**Charity Name No (if any) THE WILBERFORCE SOCIETY 1169450**
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|||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||||||||
|**Section A Receipts and payments**
**to the nearest £**
**For the period**
**from**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
~~re ~~||||||Period start date
Sep-22
**to the nearest £**
**Restricted**
**funds**
~~ee~~||||**To**
**to the nearest £**
**Endowment**
**funds**||||Period end date
Aug-23
**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||||||||
|Paypal Memberships||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Manual Memberships||**705**||||**-**||||**-**||||**705**|
|Event Income||**355**||||**-**||||**-**||||**355**|
|CUDAR donations||**225**||||**-**||||**-**||||**225**|
|Misc||**89**||||**-**||||**-**||||**89**|
|Stash Payments||**123**||||**-**||||**-**||||**123**|
|Grants||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_||**1,496**
_(Gross income for AR)_||||**-**||||**-**||||**1,496**|
|**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 1,496**
**-**
**-**
**1,496**
**(see table).**
~~—————~~|||||||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||||||||
|Speaker Costs||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Subscriptions(Zoom, Wix, etc.)||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Entertainment||**511**||||**-**||||**-**||||**511**|
|Stash Payments||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Publicity||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Event Refund||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|Misc||**102**||||**-**||||**-**||||**102**|
|Admin(SumUp)||**25**||||**-**||||**-**||||**25**|
|||**-**||||**-**||||**-**||||**-**|
|**_Sub total_ **||**638**||||**-**||||**-**||||**638**|
|Purchase of Fixed Asset
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 638**
**-**
**-**
**638**
**A4 Asset and investment**
~~SSS—~~|||||||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **||**858**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**7,998**
**-**
**8,856**
**-**
~~SS~~||||||||**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|||**858**
**-**
**7,998**
**58**
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|
|---|---|---|---|
|**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B5 Liabilities**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|**Details**
Current Account Balance
PayPal Balance
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))|**to nearest £**
**4,452**
**4,401**
**-**
**8,853**
Agreement Error
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Unrestricted**
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Fund to which**
~~**asset belongs**~~
**Fund to which**
~~**asset belongs**~~
**Fund to which**
~~**li bili**~~
~~**l**~~|**to nearest £**
**Restricted**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||**-**|
||||OK|
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**Restricted**
**funds**|
||||**-**|
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||||**-**|
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## **CC16a**
**Last year to the nearest £**
**817 153 451 94 150 18 - - 1,684**
**-**
**1,684**
**396 166 402 568 80 4 54 - - 1,670**
**20 20 1,690 - 7 - 8,005 7,998**
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## **Endowment**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
## OK
## **Endowment funds**
## **to nearest £**
**-**
**Current value** ~~**(optional)**~~ **-**
**Current value** ~~**(optional)**~~
## **When due**
~~**( i l)**~~
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