SHELTERBOX TRUST

Registered charity 1096479 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q165333 · Wikipedia

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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE ON A WORLDWIDE BASIS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF, AID AND ASSISTANCE FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE IN CHARITABLE NEED AFFECTED BY, OR VULNERABLE TO, DISASTER OR OTHER EVENTS, PARTICULARLY BY PROVIDING SHELTER

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that ShelterBox operated at a deliberate deficit of £3.2m in 2025, reducing total reserves from £21.1m to £18m. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £11.5m at year-end, which is below the stated policy target of £5.5m, though the charity remains confident in its going concern status.

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 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
• 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.

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 (103,097 followers) · instagram (17K followers)

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 3.7%) (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

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.

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 AID BOX COMMUNITY.

• AID BOX COMMUNITY income £386k
• SHELTER FROM THE STORM income £549k
• CRISIS AID income £1.2m
• RECYCLING LIVES CHARITY income £2.6m
• SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE LIMITED income £77.0m
• Water Survival Box Ltd income £222k

Side by side with its peers

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