Commonwealth Girls Education Fund (CGEF)

Address:

56 Morant Place, Commerce Road, Wood Green, London N22 8HT UK

Telephone: +44(0) 330 113 2191 / 787 937 5700

Email:

AdminSec@cgefund.org

Year established: 1967

Number of staff: 1

Annual expenditure:

£102,142 in 2017

See annual accounts

Officers (2015):

Chair: Roxanne StClair

Trustee (finance): Vimal Shah

Administrative Secretary: Danielle Jones-Smith

Aims and objectives:

To sponsor girls of ability through secondary school where, without assistance, they would be unable or unlikely to continue schooling; to give them a sense of their own value and worth; to enable them to act as ambassadors for female education within their own communities.

Main activities:

Fundraising events including the 10 km London Run, the Commonwealth Annual Fair in London and Splendours of the Commonwealth, an annual fund-raising event celebrating global fashion and entertainment in the lead up to London Fashion Week.

Advocacy work on gender and education through presentations at meetings with other organisations in education, gender and development; monitoring and evaluation of girls in Commonwealth countries; and annual reports and newsletters.

Recent publications:

See latest annual report.