WATERHARVEST

Registered charity 1127564 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELLS FOR INDIA

WaterHarvest works through local voluntary organisations with rural communities in Africa, primarily in relation to water but also in the are as of health, education, income generation and empowerment of women.

Objects

1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE OF THE THIRD WORLD.2 OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES NOT FALLING UNDER THE ABOVE HEADING AND TO WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE TO APPLY ANY PART OF THE TRUST FUND

Area of benefit: THE THIRD WORLD

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Winchester, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £22,902 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £358,188 and expenditure of £328,023. Free reserves stood at £198,642, representing seven months of the upcoming annual budget, which falls within the trustees' stated policy of maintaining six to nine months of reserves. While the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis, the trustees expressed concern regarding long-term income potential due to global challenges and the charity's approaching 40th anniversary.

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 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (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
• 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

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 06484901 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• BOYNTON, Justin Peter — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• DAVIES, Gareth Jon — director, appointed 28/04/2021on trustee list
• LA TROBE WESTON, Alice Flora — director, appointed 28/04/2021not on trustee list
• BEUKES, Fiona Jane — director, appointed 27/08/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Fiona Jane Beukeschair
• Alice Flora La Trobe Weston · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth Jon Davies · trustee of 1 other charity
• Justin Peter Boynton

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

Operates in: Ghana · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VILLAGE WATER LIMITED.

• VILLAGE WATER LIMITED income £1.5m
• UKHARVEST LIMITED income £1.1m
• LIVING WATERS EUROPE income £192k
• WORLD HARVEST (UK) income £686k
• WELLBORING income £278k
• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m

Side by side with its peers

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