THE POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1091698 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We focused on the Sustainable Communities Act. This involves policies to combat the joint problems of poverty and environmental decline; and sets up a mechanism whereby those policies will be driven by local communities. We also made grants for the promotion of the Act.We funded an investigation into the social and environmental effects of energy policy.

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE:-TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO CONSERVE AND PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR BY CARRYING OUT RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY IN AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXT AND PUBLICISING THE RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH."

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chelmsford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £48,506 for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £205,928 and total expenditure of £157,422. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves are minimal at £673, while restricted funds stand at £100,538, bringing total funds to £101,211. The trustees consider that the current reserves are sufficient for the charity's purposes and report no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTYN WILLIAMSchair
• Philip Barritt
• Syed Ahmed OBE
• Tanya Kenny

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.

• SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION income £32k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION income £211k
• BUILDING COMMUNITIES TRUSTEE LIMITED income £192k
• CAMPAIGN FOR BETTER TRANSPORT CHARITABLE TRUST income £819k

Side by side with its peers

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