THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1043177 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE WATER DISCONNECTIONS CHARITABLE TRUST

The objective of the Trust is to apply its income towards relieving those customers who are in conditions of need, poverty, hardship or other distress and are having difficulty making payment for the supply of water to their home but make regular payments for an amount they can afford.

Objects

TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL FOR OR TOWARDS RELIEVING THOSE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED POVERTY HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISTRESS AND ARE UNABLE TO MEET OR PAY FOR CHARGES FOR THE SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION OCCUPIED BY SUCH PERSONS AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT

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: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds decreased from £70 to £70 over the year, with total incoming resources of £240,150 fully expended on charitable activities and governance costs. The trustees report that margins are tight due to increasing demand and have noted a high risk that future demand may outstrip available funding without careful review of eligibility criteria.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN TERRY THOMPSONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BERNARD CYSEWSKI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Hyde
• IAN STEPHEN JONES · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Curtis
• TOM MARSHALL

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Cambridgeshire · Derbyshire · Dudley · Sandwell · Staffordshire · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED UTILITIES TRUST FUND.

• UNITED UTILITIES TRUST FUND income £3.5m
• YORKSHIRE WATER COMMUNITY TRUST income £1.3m
• SAMR TRUST income £278k
• TS TRUST income £533k
• THE LIVING WATERS TRUST income £128k
• SR & PH Southall Trust income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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