RENEWABLE WORLD

Registered charity 1119467 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE KORU FOUNDATION

Renewable World tackles poverty through renewable energy. It works in East Africa and South Asia to promote affordable reliable energy services for poor consumers to improve income generation, enterprise development, health & education. Our unique relationship with the Renewable Energy industry allows us to leverage skills, expertise and resources to support and develop our work.

Objects

3.1 TO RELIEVE POVERTY;3.2. THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT BY THE REDUCTION OF CARBON EMISSIONS AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES; AND3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC AND INTERESTED PARTIES IN EFFECTIVE REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GASSES, THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS ARISING FROM CLIMATE CHANGE, AND TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT RESEARCH INTO SUCH ISSUES AND TO PUBLISH AND WIDELY DISSEMINATE THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH

Area of benefit: 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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in robust financial health with unrestricted reserves of £406,029, which exceeds the stated policy target of £230,000. Although the charity reported a net movement in funds of -£125,768 due to a transitional period in funding, the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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
• 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
• 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 06005778

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Renewable World (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• O'GORMAN, Violet Claire Louise — director, appointed 23/03/2026on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Ian Maurice — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• PODEVYN, Nicholas James Pierre — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• DITISHEIM, Josepha Suzy Lea — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• FELTHAM, Nicola Louise — director, appointed 04/12/2023on trustee list
• WHITEACRE, Emma — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
• DEWDNEY, Richard Stuart — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
• KARLSTROM, Emma Carolina Viktoria — director, appointed 29/11/2021on trustee list
• SHRESTHA, Lata — director, appointed 30/11/2020on trustee list
• WALKER, Stephen John — director, appointed 05/07/2019on trustee list
• ADAMS, Catherine Rosalind — director, appointed 15/12/2014on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Alexandra Karoline — secretary, appointed 10/06/2026

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen John Walkerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carolyn Ann Ramage
• Catherine Adams
• Emma Carolina Viktoria Karlstrom
• Emma Whiteacre
• Ian Maurice Robinson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Josepha Suzy Lea Ditisheim
• Lata Shrestha
• Nicholas James Pierre Podevyn
• Nicola Louise Feltham
• Richard Dewdney
• Violet Claire Louise O'Gorman

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

Operates in: Brighton And Hove · Kenya · Nepal · Tanzania

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS.

• COMMUNITY ENERGY PLUS income £1.9m
• THE CONVERGING WORLD income £104k
• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• THE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION income £52k
• WORLD IN NEED INTERNATIONAL income £274k
• NETWORK FOR A BETTER WORLD income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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