SUSTAINABILITY FIRST

Registered charity 1078994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Research and publication of policy papers and sustainability eg. water, waste, energy.

Objects

TO ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND TO UNDERTAKE AND PROCURE RESEARCH AND STUDY AND TO PUBLISH ANY USEFUL RESULTS. TO PROMOTE IDEAS, ACTIONS AND CHANGES TO FURTHER THE INTEGRATION OF QUALITY OF LIFE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, INCLUDING THE COMBATING OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING; AT A COMMUNITY, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL..

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £166,811, which the trustees calculated as representing 7.1 months of core operating costs. This level is slightly lower than the charity's policy target of maintaining six months to one year of core costs, but the trustees remain confident in the charity's viability. The charity reported a net fund outflow of £24,530 for the year, having spent more on charitable activities than it received in income.

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 3 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
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Matthew Lunnchair
• Amy Louise Whitney
• DEREK LICKORISH
• EDWARD STANLEY DE SALIS YOUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eugenio Lupi
• Joe Perkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lucy Jane Holdaway
• Sarah Helen Deasley
• Steven John Harman

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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