THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1115035 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT (CT), THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT LIMITED

The charity is a grant giver which provides funds to The Death Penalty Project Limited (DPP Ltd), enabling it to provide free legal representation to prisoners under sentence of death. The charity and DPP Ltd also conduct capacity building programmes for legal and medical professionals; and develop and commission research studies on issues surrounding the death penalty.

Objects

1 TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CARIBBEAN, ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND ELSEWHERE AND PARTICULARLY THE RIGHTS OF INDIVIDUALS ACCUSED OF CRIMES THAT ARE PUNISHABLE BY DEATH AND OF THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SENTENCED TO DEATH;2 TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW;3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND TRAINING IN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (INCLUDING INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW), AND IN PARTICULAR CONCERNING THE OPERATION OF THE DEATH PENALTY;AND IN CLAUSE 1 'TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT HUMAN RIGHTS' MEANS TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT THE RIGHTS ENSHRINED IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 1948, THE AMERICAN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF MAN 1948, THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS 1966, THE AMERICAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 1978 AND THE AFRICAN CHARTER ON HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS 1981.

Area of benefit: CARIBBEAN, ANGLOPHONE AFRICAN COUNTRIES AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £1,503 for the year, with total income of £244,428 and charitable expenditure of £242,925. Unrestricted reserves stood at £14,547, exceeding the stated policy target of £5,000. The trustees confirmed the organization is a going concern, supported by confirmed donations and ongoing financial support from related parties.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).
• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Death Penalty Project (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY CHARLES BURTON CBEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW CHARLES JAMES RODGER · trustee of 2 other charities
• EDWARD FITZGERALD QC
• SIMON GOLDBERG

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

Operates in: Antigua And Barbuda · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belarus · Belize · Dominica · Ghana · Grenada · Guyana · India · Indonesia · Jamaica

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• ANDREW CHARLES JAMES RODGER — trustee here and at THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST
• ANTHONY CHARLES BURTON CBE — trustee here and at THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST
• EDWARD FITZGERALD QC — trustee here and at THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST
• SIMON GOLDBERG — trustee here and at THE DEATH PENALTY PROJECT CHARITABLE TRUST

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.

Government & lottery funding

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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 PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP.

• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• D L M CHARITABLE TRUST income £198k
• THE D AND L CHARITABLE TRUST income £51k
• DHD FOUNDATION income £106k
• REPRIEVE income £3.3m
• THE JUDY BLAME CHARITABLE TRUST income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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