SHELTERBOX TRUST

Registered charity 1096479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and vital supplies to support communities around the world overwhelmed by disaster and humanitarian crises.

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that ShelterBox ended 2025 with total reserves of £18m, which is above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £12m. The charity reported a deliberate planned deficit of £3.2m for the year, reducing reserves from £21.1m to £18m, but maintains that it has sufficient funds to continue operations.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• ShelterBox Trust is Seeking an Emergency Coordinator – Apply Before 25 January 2026 globalsouthopportunities.com · 16/01/2026

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04612652
• Trading subsidiary: SHELTERBOX TRADING LIMITED Companies House 07096770

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

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.

• MANEK, Geeta — director, appointed 15/05/2026on trustee list
• JONES, Esme Rose — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• DEAN, Kerenza Anna — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• SCATLIFFE, Suzanne Lee — director, appointed 10/12/2025on trustee list
• SRIVIVEKANANDARAJAH, Srikaran — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• FOX, Virginia Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• CARTER, Matthew James — director, appointed 11/12/2024on trustee list
• HORAN, Steven Thomas, Mr. — director, appointed 03/03/2022on trustee list
• SKYNER, Leo — director, appointed 25/05/2021on trustee list
• GOUDSMIT, Claire Nicole — director, appointed 28/11/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles 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 · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Esme Rose Jones
• Geeta Manek
• George William Pennock
• Kerenza Anna Dean · trustee of 1 other charity
• Leo Skyner
• MATTHEW CARTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Srikaran Srivivekanandarajah
• Steven Thomas Horan
• Suzanne Lee Scatliffe
• Virginia Elizabeth Fox
• claire goudsmit

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burkina Faso · Cameroon · Chad · City Of London · Cornwall · Ethiopia · Lebanon · Malawi · Mozambique · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHELTER FROM THE STORM.

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• SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE LIMITED income £77.0m
• AID BOX COMMUNITY income £359k
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• THE BUS SHELTER MK income £383k
• REFUGEASE income £300k

Side by side with its peers

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