GLOBAL ACTION PLAN

Registered charity 1026148 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5570078 · also known as GLOBAL ACTION PLAN U K · also registered in Scotland as SC041260 (OSCR)

Global Action Plan is a charity that's working for a green and thriving planet where we can live happily without ruining the Earth we depend on. We're experts in helping people live more sustainable lifestyles. We do this by making connections between what's good for people and good for the planet.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT BY INCREASING PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN BEHAVIOUR WHICH IS NOT HARMFUL TO MAN AND OTHER LIVING SPECIES AND TO PLANETARY ECOLOGY

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £490,924 (2024: £409,918), driven by a net income of £81,006 against total expenditure of £1,924,558. Unrestricted reserves stood at £210,924, while the charity generated positive operating cash flows of £193,285, indicating adequate resources to continue operating.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02838296

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Global Action Plan (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Blake — Chair of Board of Trustees (source)
• Larissa Lockwood — Director of Campaigns and Community Action (source)
• Ali Body — Director of Research and Development (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PENTON, Kenneth Richard — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• BLAKE, Christopher John — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• GULRAJANI, Karishma Sunil — director, appointed 15/07/2025on trustee list
• HILL, Katharine Anne — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Martyn Graeme — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
• KURAVI, Advait Sarma — director, appointed 16/05/2022on trustee list
• MAXWELL, Susan Jayne — director, appointed 06/04/2017not on trustee list
• KATZ, Jonathan — director, appointed 20/01/2010on trustee list
• KATZ, Jonathan — secretary, appointed 11/03/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (82% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Advait Sarma Kuravi
• Christopher John Blake
• JONATHAN KATZ · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karishma Sunil Gulrajani
• Katharine Hill
• Kenneth Richard Penton
• Martyn Graeme Williams
• SUE WELLAND

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Bermuda · France · Germany · Hungary · Ireland · Italy · Malta · Poland · Scotland · South Africa · Spain · Switzerland

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLOBAL AID CARE.

• GLOBAL AID CARE income £396k
• GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK income £1.6m
• GLOBAL AID NETWORK UK income £615k
• PRACTICAL ACTION income £33.1m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK income £4.9m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.