Dialogue Earth

Registered charity 1125378 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHINA DIALOGUE TRUST

The China Dialogue Trust promotes communication across barriers of language and culture on environment and climate change in order to inform, educate and build a global consensus for equitable and constructive solutions to urgent problems. We do this through the production, publication and dissemination of news and analysis.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £168,938 for the year ended 31 December 2024, funded from historic reserves. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £186,676, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £360,000 (equivalent to three months of core expenditure).

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06477262 · Financial health read from its filings
• Trading subsidiary: DIALOGUE SERVICES LTD. Companies House 08854972

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.

• NORTHCOTE, Alexander Benet Paul Hornby — director, appointed 08/01/2025on trustee list
• JIN, Ning — director, appointed 16/07/2024on trustee list
• OLOO, Collins Odote, Professor — director, appointed 11/07/2023on trustee list
• LUSH, Louisiana, Dr — director, appointed 22/11/2022not on trustee list
• ZHOU, Jie — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• HOLTUM, Caroline — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• SAVAGE, Burnham Matthew — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• THOMAS, David Alexander — director, appointed 26/07/2022on trustee list
• HITCH, Susan Jennifer Magdalen — director, appointed 25/10/2016on trustee list
• JARVIS, Tim — secretary, appointed 22/05/2026

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Benet Northcotechair
• Burnham Matthew Savage
• Caroline Holtum
• David Thomas
• Dr Louisiana Lush PhD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jie Zhou
• Ning Jin
• Professor Collins Odote Oloo
• SUSAN HITCH

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

Operates in: China · India · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• GLOBAL DIALOGUE income £4.7m
• DIALOGUE SOCIETY income £325k
• CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £732k
• INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE income £5.2m
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• THE CONVERSATION TRUST (UK) LIMITED income £2.7m

Side by side with its peers

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