WELLBORING

Registered charity 1142295 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Improve health, education and community welfare by providing sustainable safe water solutions, maintenance, hygiene training and water education, working in partnership with communities, mostly centred on schools, in sub-Saharan Africa.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGH THE ENABLEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BY THE INTRODUCTION OF INTEGRATED WATER SOLUTIONS THAT PROVIDE RELIABLE SUPPLY AND EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS AND FREELY GIVEN PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased from £25,470 to £53,411, driven by a net income of £27,941 against charitable expenditure of £249,798. The charity holds unrestricted funds of £50,863 and restricted funds of £2,548, with no stated reserves policy target provided for comparison.

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.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — WellBoring (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BADEA — “BADEA’s funding has significantly impacted Gambia’s divisions, enhancing numerous schools’ health and well-being.” (source page)
• Colgate — “In 2018 Colgate-Palmolive, in partnership with WellBoring, started the journey to provide Kenyan people with sustainable water wells.” (source page)
• FairPlanet — “Our collaboration, enriched by the founders’ generous well-donations, elevates the call for safe water access in Sub-Saharan Africa.” (source page)
• Rotary — “The Rotary Foundation, alongside Rotary Clubs of Chippenham, Wiltshire Vale, Carmarthen Tywi, Abercan & Newbridge, Blois, Salem, Beverly, an…” (source page)
• United Network Development — “In 2022, they expanded this practice by partnering with WellBoring, channeling their contribution into a major rehabilitation project, signi…” (source page)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Nicholas Warren White
• Peter Johnson
• Richard Kimani Kongo

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

Operates in: Kenya · Malawi · The Gambia

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 SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT.

• SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT income £63k
• HELPING EDUCATING AND REBUILDING LIVES income £78k
• Afro-Asia Welfare Trust income £175k
• WILLINGTOTS income £78k
• NETWORK OF WELLBEING income £209k
• WELLSPRINGS TOGETHER income £148k

Side by side with its peers

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