CLIENTEARTH

Registered charity 1053988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5132479 · Wikipedia · also known as EARTHRIGHTS, EARTHRIGHTS:THE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND RESOURCE CENTRE

ClientEarth's objects are the promotion and protection of the environment for the public benefit by the use of the law, to provide legal assistance to those who otherwise do not have access thereto, to promote education on environmental rights and responsibilities and to conduct research thereon. We will achieve these goals through advocacy, litigation, and research.

Objects

(I)TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE ENHANCEMENT, RESTORATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, INCLUDING THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN HEALTH, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; (2)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE LAW, PRACTICE AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT; (3)TO RELIEVE POVERTY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF LEGAL SERVICES TO THOSE WHO CANNOT OTHERWISE AFFORD THEM; (4)TO PROMOTE, ASSIST, UNDERTAKE AND COMMISSION RESEARCH INTO THE LAW, PRACTICE, AND ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND MATTERS RELATING THERETO, INCLUDING THE IMPACT, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, OF ANY HUMAN ACTIVITY ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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: Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £13.4 million and free unrestricted reserves of £12 million, which is above its stated policy target of £6.8 million. The trustees report that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and has successfully diversified its income base to enhance financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 6 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.

• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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 02863827
• Trading subsidiary: CLIENTEARTH TRADING LTD Companies House 13095280

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ClientEarth (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Thornton — President and Founder (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Postcode Lottery — “Since 2016, ClientEarth has been supported by Postcode Lottery players. In that time, players have raised over £11million to support our wor…” (source page)

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.

• JOHNSON, Justin Robert — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
• WANYOIKE, Rachel Wangechi — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• CLARKE, Amy — director, appointed 14/03/2025on trustee list
• WILD, Hilary Frances — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• PATEL, Champa Khimji — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• RAMAKRISHNA, Kilaparti, Dr — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• RIVETT-CARNAC, Thomas Charles — director, appointed 11/07/2024on trustee list
• HOWARD BOYD, Emma — director, appointed 18/04/2024not on trustee list
• REID, Alexander Lyman — director, appointed 28/11/2023on trustee list
• RAZZOUK, Assaad Wajdi — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• STRATENWERTH, Georg — director, appointed 22/03/2016on trustee list
• MCINTOSH, Winsome — director, appointed 13/11/2006on trustee list

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): facebook (44,252 followers) · instagram (60K followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Head of People and Culture — £76,431 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Lead, International Programme Management — £63,491 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Philanthropy Manager — £50,331 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 16/09/2026)
• Music & Culture Manager — £50,331 per year · London (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 16/09/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (53% 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: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emma Howard Boydchair
• Alexander Lyman Reid
• Amy Clarke
• Assaad Wajdi Razzouk
• Champa Khimji Patel
• Dr KILAPARTI RAMAKRISHNA
• Justin Johnson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rachel Wangechi Wanyoike
• Thomas Charles Rivett-Carnac
• WINSOME MCINTOSH

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

Operates in: Belgium · Bulgaria · China · Congo · Gabon · Ghana · Ivory Coast · Liberia · Poland · Spain · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CONTAMINATED LAND: APPLICATIONS IN REAL ENVIRONMENTS.

• CONTAMINATED LAND: APPLICATIONS IN REAL ENVIRONMENTS income £1.5m
• WIRRAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK income £63k
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• BALANCED EARTH income £37k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m

Side by side with its peers

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