ENERGY PROJECTS PLUS

Registered charity 1080137 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Energy Projects Plus is a Charity and Company and operates energy efficiency projects in Merseyside and Cheshire working with householders, local authorities, community groups and other organisations. The Charity provides a free impartial advice service and runs specific energy efficiency projects from its offices in Wallasey, Merseyside.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES INCLUDING THE ALLEVIATION OF FUEL POVERTY AND THE MINIMISATION OF WASTE PRODUCED BY ELECTRICITY GENERATING STATIONS THROUGH THE PROMOTION OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wirral, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net increase in total assets of £244,676 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by surpluses in both general and restricted funds. Unrestricted funds stood at £611,200, which the trustees confirmed exceeds their stated reserves policy target of £506,000. The charity maintains adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 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
• 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 03176917 · Financial health read from its filings

Funders the charity credits

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

• Citizens Advice — “Funded nationally by Citizens Advice, the Energy Outreach Project is a collaboration of locally-delivered advice projects, spanning England …” (source page)
• Energy Redress Scheme — “Thanks to funding from the Energy Redress Scheme, we are delighted to announce we are delivering our St. Helens Warm Homes For Lungs project” (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.

• BOOTHROYD, Lisa Hannah — director, appointed 07/08/2026on trustee list
• HERWIG, Leon Arthur — director, appointed 11/07/2025on trustee list
• COLBOURNE, David Christopher Alexis — director, appointed 30/01/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Christopher Alexis Colbournechair
• DAVID ARTHUR PYE
• Leon Arthur Herwig
• Lisa Hannah Boothroyd

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Cheshire West & Chester · Halton · Knowsley · Liverpool City · Sefton · St Helens · Warrington · Wirral

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS.

• COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS income £1.9m
• MARCHES ENERGY ADVICE income £2.5m
• ACT ON ENERGY income £4.7m
• NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION income £15.3m
• HOUSE PROJECT CENTRE income £160k
• THE NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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