Population Matters

Registered charity 1114109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OPTIMUM POPULATION TRUST, POPOFFSETS

Population Matters* educates the public on population issues and their impact on environmental sustainability, resource use and quality of life* researches and promotes methods to determine ecologically sustainable human population levels* encourages policies, in the UK and globally, that can help achieve environmental sustainability through a stable population.

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income fell by 54% to £1.74 million, primarily due to a significant decrease in legacy income. Despite this drop, the charity reported a net surplus of £534,369 and held unrestricted reserves of £1.62 million, which the trustees note are above the minimum level of £400,000 required by their reserves policy.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Amy Jankiewicz — Chief Executive (source)
• Dr Joshua HIll — Director of Research & Learning (source)
• Jameen Kaur — Director of Advocacy and Influence (source)
• NIHAR RESHAMWALA — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Emma Lewendon-strutt — Director of Fundraising and Engagement (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~51.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anup Tiwari
• Iain Heaton
• Karin Kanewske Turner Birnie
• Stacy Taylor
• Victoria Katherine Poll

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

Operates in: Brazil · Colombia · Egypt · India · Kenya · Nigeria · Scotland · Sierra Leone · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• EDUCATION MATTERS income £1.7m
• SEX MATTERS income £1.4m
• KIDS MATTER income £892k
• FOOD MATTERS FOUNDATION income £303k
• PEOPLE MATTERS (WEST YORKSHIRE) income £1.1m
• POPULATION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE income £126k

Side by side with its peers

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