THE ENERGY SAVING TRUST FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1144106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESTF

The Foundations object's are to promote and to advance the education of the public in the conservation, protection, and improvement of the physical and natural environment so as to further the protection of the world's climate systems, including by reducing and making sustainable the use of energy and water and ensuring the prudent use of non-renewable resources for public benefit?.

Objects

TO PROMOTE AND TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION, AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT SO AS TO FURTHER THE PROTECTION OF THE WORLD'S CLIMATE SYSTEMS, INCLUDING BY REDUCING AND MAKING SUSTAINABLE THE USE OF ENERGY AND WATER AND ENSURING THE PRUDENT USE OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of negative £29k for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £179k. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, citing cash reserves relative to budgeted expenditure. The charity's reserves policy is to hold £5,000, a level which matches the actual unrestricted general funds held at year-end.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. 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
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 21/02/2024, 21 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 07703610 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• WADE, Joanne, Dr — director, appointed 02/09/2025on trustee list
• NEWHOUSE, Jasmine — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• BONNETT, Zoe Hannah — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• THORNE, Ella — director, appointed 03/03/2025on trustee list
• OLIVIER, Julian Henry — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• CROWFOOT, Daisy — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• NELKON, Carys Louise — director, appointed 02/12/2022on trustee list
• COLLINSON, Gillian — director, appointed 31/10/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carys Louise Nelkonchair
• Daisy Crowfoot
• Dr Joanne Wade
• Ella Thorne
• Gillian Collinson
• Jasmine Newhouse
• Julian Olivier
• Zoe Hannah Bonnett

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland

Income and spending

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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 EARTHWORKS TRUST LIMITED.

• EARTHWORKS TRUST LIMITED income £467k
• THE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION income £52k
• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• PROTECT EARTH income £392k
• THE POVERTY AND ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £206k
• THE BAYWIND ENERGY COMMUNITY TRUST income £177k

Side by side with its peers

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