GRIFAID

Registered charity 1135952 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Grifaid Charity is about safe water for all, providing access to safe drinking water for families and communities, resulting in the relief of hardship, the preservation of health and the support of education among people in poverty residing in developing countries.

Objects

TO RELIEVE HARDSHIP, PRESERVE HEALTH AND SUPPORT EDUCATION AMONG PEOPLE IN POVERTY RESIDING PERMANENTLY OR TEMPORARILY IN COUNTRIES TYPICALLY CLASSED AS DEVELOPING COUNTRIES INCLUDING BENIN, INDIA, GAMBIA, GHANA, MALI, NEPAL, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, RWANDA, SIERRA LEONE, SOMALIA, SRI LANKA, TANZANIA, UGANDA AND ZAMBIA AND BY SUCH CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT".

Area of benefit: BENIN, INDIA, GAMBIA, GHANA, MALI, NEPAL, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, RWANDA, SIERRA LEONE, SOMALIA, SRI LANKA, TANZANIA, UGANDA,AND ZAMBIA

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 · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sunderland, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£54k

Latest spending

£21k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £33,298.27 for the year ended 5 April 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Total income increased to £54,313.46, while total costs for filters and administration were £21,015.19. The net assets stood at £409,926.01, indicating a stable financial position with no disclosed liabilities or going concern issues.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2025

Volunteers: 9

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2024

Volunteers: 8

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 05/04/2023

Volunteers: 8

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 05/04/2023 (received 25/03/2024, 49 days after the 05/02/2024 due date); year ending 05/04/2022 (received 09/02/2023, 4 days after the 05/02/2023 due date); year ending 05/04/2021 (received 09/02/2022, 4 days after the 05/02/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (13/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

JOHN DALTON GRIFFITHchair
Dr FAITH MARGARET WILLIAMS
GILLIAN BARBARA GRIFFITH
ROGER AUSTIN GRANT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Belarus · Benin · Botswana · Burma · Burundi · Cambodia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Ghana · Haiti · Honduras

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
05/04/2025	£54k	£21k
05/04/2024	£17k	£24k
05/04/2023	£92k	£23k
05/04/2022	£42k	£6k
05/04/2021	£19k	£24k

Common questions

Is GRIFAID financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported an operating surplus of £33,298.27 for the year ended 5 April 2025, compared to a deficit in the prior year. Total income increased to £54,313.46, while total costs for filters and administration were £21,015.19. The net assets stood at £409,926.01, indicating a stable financial position with no disclosed liabilities or going concern issues. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	2	£220k
THE PETER STEBBINGS MEMORIAL CHARITY	2	£27k
THE HUGH SYMONS CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£17k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	2	£10k
THE ROGER & DOUGLAS TURNER CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£10k
R G HILLS CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£6k
THE HASLUCK CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£5k
THE ARDWICK TRUST	2	£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED.

CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED income £3.3m
GARNDIFFAITH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £95k
GROUNDWATER RELIEF income £1.4m
WATERAID income £92.1m
VILLAGE WATER LIMITED income £1.5m
Derwentside and Gateshead swim team income £243k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
GRIFAID	£54k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED FY2025	£3.3m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
GARNDIFFAITH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FY2025	£95k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
GROUNDWATER RELIEF FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WATERAID FY2025	£92.1m	£130,001 - £140,000	—	above	28.0%	no doubt
VILLAGE WATER LIMITED FY2025	£1.5m	—	0	within	—	no doubt

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