WASTESAVERS CHARITABLE TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1116150 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Wastesavers Charitable Trust Limited operates three community projects in Newport:Education - schools, community groups on and off siteCommunity Furniture Shop - collects and distributes household itemsTraining - excluded young people from schools

Objects

A THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVISION OF RENOVATED FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ACCESSORIES FOR THOSE PERSONS RESIDENT IN NEWPORT SOUTH WALES AND THE SURROUNDING AREA IN NECESSITOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.B THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN RESPECT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF, AND NEED FOR, RECYCLING IN THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: NEWPORT, SOUTH WALES

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newport, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a consolidated deficit of £236,768 for the year, driven by a loss in charitable activities offset by a profit in its trading subsidiary. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,442,613, which is below the stated policy target of £1,410k (noted as £913k in the narrative but £1,442,613 in the balance sheet; the narrative explicitly states the balance was £913k against a policy of £1,410k). The trustees consider the charity a going concern, citing sufficient reserves and multiple income streams.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. 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
• 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
• 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)

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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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 20/08/2025, 201 days after the 31/01/2025 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: WASTESAVERS LIMITED Companies House 03842840
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05326617 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Mayer — Chairman (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.

• AMOEDO, Mirna — director, appointed 14/05/2026on trustee list
• SMILLIE, Ella Anne — director, appointed 23/04/2026not on trustee list
• LYNBECK, Robert — director, appointed 20/08/2024on trustee list
• PRICE, Sue — director, appointed 15/06/2023on trustee list
• PEAKE, Nicola Jane — director, appointed 05/04/2023on trustee list
• ESPOSITO, Mark — director, appointed 20/09/2018on trustee list
• WYNN, Caroline Jane — director, appointed 16/11/2017on trustee list
• CASLEY, Leonard John — director, appointed 25/08/2017on trustee list
• AYRES, Roger John — director, appointed 10/12/2007on trustee list
• MAYER, David Julian, Councillor — director, appointed 07/01/2005on trustee list
• QURESHI, Rafia — secretary, appointed 17/09/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £36k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID MAYERchair
• Caroline Wynn
• Eleanor Smillie
• Leonard Casley
• Mark Esposito
• Mirna Amoedo
• Nicola Peake
• ROGER AYRES
• Robert Lynbeck · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sue Price

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

Operates in: Newport City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• NEWSTARTS income £617k
• WATERBERRY COMMUNITY PROJECTS LIMITED income £124k
• NEWPORT LIVE income £11.2m
• THE NEWBURY COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £2.1m
• THE COMMUNITY STOREHOUSE income £77k
• The Neath Port Talbot Community Voluntary Service Limited income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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