CLEANUP UNITED KINGDOM

Registered charity 1120115 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEANUPUK

CleanupUK's mission is to tackle the problem of litter by encouraging the activities of volunteer litter collecting groups throughout the UK and, in particular, by helping those people living in more deprived areas improve their lives by dealing with the blight of litter that so often drags these areas down. Please visit www.cleanupuk.org.uk

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR IMPROVEMENT IN PARTICULAR BY DEVELOPING A NETWORK OF COMMUNITY GROUPS DEDICATED TO COLLECTING LITTER FROM AND OTHERWISE IMPROVING THE APPEARANCE AND AMENITY OF THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £136,172 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to a shortfall in trust and foundation fundraising income and lower-than-expected corporate partnership income. Per the trustees' report, the charity managed this deficit using brought-forward reserves, including a £246,000 legacy, and holds unrestricted reserves of £133,351. The trustees confirm the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, with reasonable expectation of adequate resources for at least twelve months from the approval date.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from more than £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,000 to £70,000 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (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 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)

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 — CleanupUK (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abbie-Eve Valentine
• Anton Glyn Poyntz
• Bleddyn Williams
• Georgina Fletcher
• Hannah Whybrow
• Harry Machin
• Holly Winkler
• Natasha Blunt
• Oonagh Goodman
• Sophie Longmire
• Temitayo Jeremiah Adigun

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 CLEANCONSCIENCE.

• CLEANCONSCIENCE income £108k
• UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION - UK income £480k
• LINK UP (UK) income £43k
• CYCLISTS' TOURING CLUB income £11.9m
• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• RELIEFUK LTD income £254k

Side by side with its peers

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