VILLAGE WATER LIMITED

Registered charity 1117377 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132471889 · also registered in Scotland as SC044129 (OSCR)

We promote access to safe water, hygiene education and sanitation as a means of improving health, access to education and community development. We achieve this by providing support to local partners working in disadvantaged communities in Africa.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ACCESS TO SAFE WATER, HYGIENE EDUCATION AND SANITATION AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING HEALTH, ACCESS TO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO LOCAL PARTNERS WORKING IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES IN AFRICA AND FOR OTHER COMPLEMENTARY CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITIES & INSTITUTIONS IN WHICH WE WORK.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, AFRICA

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

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Shropshire, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small deficit of £38,443 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total expenditure exceeding income. However, the trustees confirm that free reserves of £315,160 remain comfortably within the charity's stated reserves policy, and the board considers cash resources sufficient to continue operations for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WR Partners. Discloses 4 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
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Village Water (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ian Stone — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Andrew Picken OBE — Chair of Trustees (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Handy Experts — “Handy Experts are bringing together staff and customers to raise money to fund clean water projects in Africa. Since 2019 HandyExperts have …” (source page)
• CO2 Balance — “We are working with CO2 Balance on carbon reduction programmes. Their expertise in developing ethical carbon finance projects has supported …” (source page)
• Geoquip — “Geoquip Water Solutions found an affiliation with our projects- everyone needs safe water. Their support has helped hundreds of people in Af…” (source page)
• Lefrik — “Spanish designer bag company, Lefrik, donate a large selection of their eco-friendly bags and backpacks to our shop. 100% of every purchase …” (source page)
• Wikiloc — “Outdoor pursuit company Wikiloc donated to us via 1% for the Planet, a global network with thousands of incredible businesses and environmen…” (source page)
• Capgemini — “The employees of Capgemini have voted Village Water to win their Community Spirit awards multiple times, as well as donating office equipmen…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 9.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Picken OBEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Drake Peabody
• Madison Kirby
• Martin Rickard
• Martyn Anwyl
• Natalie Lanagan · trustee of 1 other charity
• REBECCA BUTCHER
• Sarah-Jane Docherty
• Simranjeet Gill
• Steven Andre
• Trina Chakravarti
• Zara Prabhu

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

Operates in: Mozambique · Zambia

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 LIFEWATER UK.

• LIFEWATER UK income £73k
• WATERHARVEST income £358k
• LIVING WATERS EUROPE income £192k
• RCCG LIVING WATER PARISH, WREXHAM income £77k
• VOLUNTEERING MATTERS income £5.7m
• WILTSHIRE AND BATH INDEPENDENT LIVING TRUST LTD income £149k

Side by side with its peers

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