Litter Watch

Registered charity 1098378 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LITTERWATCH, TIPTON LITTER WATCH

To promote sustainable development for the benefit of the public:(a) the preservation, conservation and the protection of the environment and the prudent use of resources.(b) the relief of poverty and the improvement of the conditions of life in socially and economically disadvantaged communities;(c) the promotion of sustainable means of achieving economic growth and regeneration.

Objects

TIPTON LITTER WATCH SHALL PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN TIPTON AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS BY: (A) THE PROMOTION OF PRACTICAL MEASURES AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF PARTNERSHIPS TO ELIMINATE LITTER AND IMPROVE THE GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING OF THE LOCAL AREAS; AND (B) RAISING THE PUBLIC AWARENESS IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE BENEFITS OF SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES.

Area of benefit: TIPTON AND THE NEIGHBOURHOODS THEREOF

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sandwell, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds totalled £53,119 at the end of the year, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet ongoing expenditure and future commitments. The charity reported a net surplus of £3,385 for the year, with total income of £92,326 and total expenditure of £88,941. Funding has been secured until July 2026, and the trustees maintain that the financial position is satisfactory.

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 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2023 (received 21/06/2024, 21 days after the 31/05/2024 due date); year ending 31/07/2021 (received 13/06/2022, 13 days after the 31/05/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Joneschair
• Jane Mitchell-Barnes
• Joanna Haydon
• John Murphy
• Joseph Robert Piggott

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• SUSTAINABILITY. HEALTH. ENVIRONMENT. DEVELOPMENT. income £2.8m
• LTPP income £1.9m
• SIMPLE REASON income £61k
• CHARTERED INSTITUTION OF WASTES MANAGEMENT income £4.4m
• WIRRAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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