UKGBC

Registered charity 1135153 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7864876 · Wikipedia · also known as UK GREEN BUILDING COUNCIL

1. to dramatically improve the sustainability of the built environment by radically improving the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained and operated; 2. to advance the education of the public in the sustainability, conservation, protection and improvement of the built environment;3. to promote the sustainability, conservation, protection and improvement of the built environment

Objects

1. Objects1.1 The Objects of the Charity are for the public benefit:1.1.1 to increase the sustainability of the built environment by improving the way it is planned, designed, constructed, maintained, operated, modified and replaced;1.1.2 to advance the education of the public in the sustainability, conservation, protection and improvement of the built environment; and1.1.3 to promote the sustainability, conservation, protection and improvement of the built environment.1.2 This provision may be amended by Special Resolution but only with the prior written consent of the Commission.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE. NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased slightly to £3,511,665 while total expenditure fell to £3,673,288, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. Free reserves stood at £290,809, which the trustees consider adequate against their policy target of between £56,000 and £740,000, and the charity continues to operate on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 01029239

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Brown — Executive Chair (source)
• Melanie Leech — CEO (source)
• Leslie Anne Johnston — CEO (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).

• Laudes Foundation — “Laudes Foundation is proud to work with UKGBC, a strategic partner leading the transformation of the built environment. Over the past 15 yea…” (source page)

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.

• CLARK, John David — director, appointed 24/09/2025on trustee list
• LEWIS, Miles — director, appointed 15/01/2025on trustee list
• MACNAMARA, Eva Marie — director, appointed 15/01/2025not on trustee list
• WATERHOUSE, Jennifer — director, appointed 25/09/2024on trustee list
• EWUOSHO, Sam — director, appointed 27/03/2024on trustee list
• ELLIS, Clifford Kudzai — director, appointed 09/01/2024on trustee list
• ROBINSON, Mark — director, appointed 29/03/2023on trustee list
• GBOLADE, Tara Ima-Obong — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• DEMEROUTIS, Basil James — director, appointed 22/02/2022on trustee list
• EVERETT, Judith — director, appointed 18/09/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Lorna Jane — director, appointed 10/07/2019on trustee list
• MCWHIRTER, Simon — secretary, appointed 06/06/2025

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Basil James Demeroutis
• Clifford Ellis
• Estelle Bailey
• Eva-Marie MacNamara
• Jennifer Waterhouse
• John David Clark
• Judith Everett
• Lorna Jane Walker
• Mark Robinson
• Miles Lewis
• Sam Ewuosho
• Tara Ima-Obong Gbolade

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 ICEED UK.

• ICEED UK income £685k
• GLOBAL COMPACT NETWORK UK income £3.8m
• THE PWC FOUNDATION income £947k
• ECOBIRMINGHAM income £529k
• OAC BUILDINGS income £182k
• GROUNDWORK LONDON income £27.9m

Side by side with its peers

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