GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK

Registered charity 1137815 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GPP UK

Raising awareness and encouraging action for the relief of global poverty by:1. Educating people principally in the UK about global poverty and the movement to end global poverty2. Empowering people principally in the UK to take action on global poverty3. Encouraging and assisting people in other countries to undertake the activities described above

Objects

RAISING AWARENESS AND ENCOURAGING ACTION FOR THE RELIEF OF GLOBAL POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS BY, WITHOUT LIMITATIONA EDUCATING PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM ABOUT GLOBAL POVERTY AND THE MOVEMENT TO END GLOBAL POVERTYB EMPOWERING PEOPLE PRINCIPALLY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL POVERTY INCLUDING MAKING DONATIONS AND VOLUNTEERING; ANDC ENCOURAGING AND ASSISTING PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES TO UNDERTAKE THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED IN RULES A AND BD THE PROMOTION OF SUCH PURPOSES BEING EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £629,475 at the end of the year, which is above the trustees' stated minimum policy target of £418,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Accendo Consulting Ltd. 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (92% 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: 3.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Friederike Roder
• Dr Guido Schmidt-Traub · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hannah Rachel Pawlby
• Joseph Cerrell
• Leo Eric Varadkar
• Rosalind McKenna
• Sabrina Hibo Dhowre Elba
• Sawsan Mohamad Chebli
• Steven John Hill
• Zoisa Leah North-Bond

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

Operates in: France · Germany · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• GLOBAL REACH income £712k
• PROJECT HOPE, UNITED KINGDOM income £176k
• THE GLOBAL STEERING GROUP FOR IMPACT INVESTMENT income £6.4m
• COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH EDUCATION income £5k
• PEOPLE AGAINST POVERTY income £104k
• THE ZACCHAEUS 2000 TRUST income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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