Population Matters

Registered charity 1114109 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4155736 · Wikipedia · 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.

Objects

2.1 The Charity’s objects are for the public benefit: 2.1.1 to advance the education of the public in issues relating to human population worldwide and its impact on sustainability;2.1.2 to advance, promote and encourage research into ecologically sustainable human population levels in all or any part or parts of the world and to publicise the results of such research; and2.1.3 to advance environmental protection by promoting policies, in all or any part or parts of the world, which will lead or contribute to the achievement of ecologically sustainable human population levels.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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

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

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03019081

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.

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.

• TURNER BIRNIE, Karin Kanewske — director, appointed 14/02/2026not on trustee list
• HEATON, Iain Sholto — director, appointed 01/02/2025on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Stacy Nicole — director, appointed 01/02/2025on trustee list
• TIWARI, Anup — director, appointed 01/02/2025on trustee list
• POLL, Victoria Katherine — director, appointed 30/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 20.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anup Tiwari
• Comfort Mussa
• 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

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 POPULATION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE.

• POPULATION INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE income £128k
• THE POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £206k
• CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS income £29k
• PEOPLE AND PLANET STUDENT ACTIVITIES LIMITED income £524k
• Habitats & Heritage income £753k
• RESULTS EDUCATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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