WATERBERG WELFARE SOCIETY TRUST

Registered charity 1115964 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATERBERG WELFARE SOCIETY TRUST OPERATING AS THE WATERBERG TRUST

The Waterberg Trust supports individuals and organisations in the Waterberg SA via a range of healthcare, education, welfare, conservation and general charitable projects, in order to uplift the people and place of the Waterberg.

Objects

A) THE FURTHERANCE OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH, IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THOSE INFECTED WITH HIV/AIDS AND OF THOSE DEPENDENT ON THEM AND THE WIDOWS, CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDENTS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DIED FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH INFECTION, OR WHICH PROMOTE EDUCATION AND OTHER WORK AIMED TO PREVENT THE SPREAD OF HIC/AIDS AND; B) TO SUPPORT ORGANISATIONS OR INDIVIDUALS PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WATERBERG AND; C) GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE WATERBERG.

Area of benefit: VAALWATER, LIMPOPO PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £668 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. Unrestricted reserves stood at £33,109, which the trustees consider adequate to cover current and future grant commitments. The charity concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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

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• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Waterberg Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARRY WILLIAM BURLES
• Catherine Nias
• ELAINE MARIA FRANKLIN
• Jane Elizabeth Whitbread · trustee of 4 other charities
• Lucy Nina Anne Calcott
• William Orme

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

Operates in: South Africa

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SEVERN RIVERS TRUST.

• SEVERN RIVERS TRUST income £2.9m
• WELLBORING income £278k
• WORTHING COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP income £47k
• DEWSBURY WELFARE TRUST income £1.4m
• WATFORD WOMEN'S CENTRE income £575k
• WEST WALES RIVERS TRUST income £884k

Side by side with its peers

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