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The Commonwealth Education Trust (Charity Number 1119647 Registered
in England and Wales) is the successor trust to the Commonwealth Institute.
It has been established to ensure that the assets of the Commonwealth Institute
are protected and are applied in a manner that is congruent with the purposes
of the original Trust which has it origins in the donations first made by individual
citizens of the now Commonwealth to the Prince of Wales in 1886 in celebration
of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.
The Deed of Trust of the Commonwealth
Education Trust provides that:
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four UK resident private citizens are to be
the Trustees
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three High Commissioners will hold office as Advisory Trustees,
being the High Commissioners representing the Chairperson in office of the
Commonwealth, the immediate past Chairperson and the Chairperson elect, all
of whom will be expressed to be acting on behalf of their Governments in
their Commonwealth role.
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there shall be a Commonwealth Council of those countries
who are members of the Commonwealth. The countries will be represented in
meetings of the Council by their appropriate representatives whose role it
is to put forward the views of their country. The Commonwealth Council shall
be chaired by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth
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the Objects of the
Trust are to advance education in The Commonwealth of Nations
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