WATERAID INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1137900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q830594 · Wikipedia · also known as WAI

WaterAid international (WAi) brings together the international group of WaterAid organisations to develop a global response to the world's water and sanitation crisis. WAi will help to consolidate relationships between WaterAid organisations and ensure that these organisations share a common vision, mission and values, as well as ensure greater coordination of strategy and policy.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF WAI ARE TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF WATER SUPPLIES, SANITATION AND ADVICE ON RELATED HEALTH MATTERS AND TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SUCH POVERTY AND SUFFERING.

Area of benefit: THE WORLD

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

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £225,000 at the end of the financial year, which is within its stated policy target of £150,000 to £230,000. The charity reported a net surplus of £12,000 for the year, funded entirely by contributions from its member organisations. The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash resources to meet liabilities for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers 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
• Complaints 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
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Maureen Patricia O'Neilchair
• ANDREW JAMES GREEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Towle
• Ankie van Wersch-Lenders
• Dr Claudia Sadoff
• Indra Prashad
• Jan Sigurd Michael Arthursson
• Mohamed Sigbe Beavogui
• Osward Chanda
• PROFESSOR HIROAKI FURUMAI
• Patrick McCafferty
• Professor Sheila Tlou

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · India · Japan · Sweden · United States

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• WATERAID income £92.1m
• INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION income £11.1m
• WasteAid income £971k
• CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED income £3.3m
• WATER FOR KIDS income £128k
• TRANSAID WORLDWIDE SERVICES LIMITED income £1.5m

Side by side with its peers

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