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NATURAL RESOURCE CHARTER LIMITED

Registered charity 1144326 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Through technical advice, advocacy, applied research, policy analysis, and capacity development, NRCL works with innovative agents of change within government ministries, civil society, the media, legislatures, the private sector, and international institutions to promote accountable and effective governance in the extractive industries.

Objects

TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCES BY GOVERNMENTS AND SOCIETY IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY REDUCTION, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(1) THE PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE NATURAL RESOURCE CHARTER AND OTHER DOCUMENTS AND MATERIALS TO ENHANCE TRANSPARENCY, EFFECTIVENESS, AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT, REVENUE MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURES;(2) RESEARCH REGARDING THE USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND THEIR REVENUES AND THE IMPACTS OF NATURAL RESOURCES ON DEVELOPMENT;(3) THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, TRAINING AND FUNDING TO INDIVIDUALS, JOURNALISTS, CIVIL SOCIETY, POLICY MAKERS, PARLIAMENTARIANS, AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND THE CONVOCATION OF MEETINGS OF GOVERNMENTS, CIVIL SOCIETY, EXPERTS AND OTHERS TO INFORM THE WORK OF THE CHARITY AND TO DISSEMINATE THE RESULTS OF THAT WORK.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.6m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
2011
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £41,358 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £100,816. The charity's income is entirely derived from its parent organization, NRGI, and it maintains a positive net current asset position of £95,675. The trustees and auditors have confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Donations received from parent charity NRGI
“During the year, donations of £1,611,857 (2024: £1,671,930) was received from NRGI.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 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.

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 31/12/2021 (received 30/05/2023, 211 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

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

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.

Official officers record.

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

Total income
£1.6m
Total spending
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£0
Employees
13

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ghana · Guinea · Mexico · Mongolia · Nigeria · Peru · Senegal · Tanzania · Tunisia · Uganda

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.6m£1.6m
31/12/2024£1.7m£1.7m
31/12/2023£1.9m£1.9m
31/12/2022£1.8m£1.7m
31/12/2021£1.8m£1.8m

Common questions

Is NATURAL RESOURCE CHARTER LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £41,358 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with unrestricted funds increasing to £100,816. The charity's income is entirely derived from its parent organization, NRGI, and it maintains a positive net current asset position of £95,675. The trustees and auditors have confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
Founders Pledge Ltd1£772k
PAUL HAMLYN FOUNDATION1£200k
BACON FOUNDATION LTD1£25k
THE BLAKEY FOUNDATION1£19k
THE WYFOLD CHARITABLE TRUST1£10k
THE GRACE TRUST1£3k
SKIPTON BUILDING SOCIETY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION1£1k
THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S CHARITY1£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHARITY TAX GROUP.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
NATURAL RESOURCE CHARTER LIMITED£1.6m——unclear—no doubt
CHARITY TAX GROUP FY2025£250k—0unclear—no doubt
THE RENEWABLE ENERGY FOUNDATION FY2025£52k—0unclear—no doubt
NEIGHBOURHOOD RESOURCE CENTRE FY2025£129k—0unclear—no doubt
THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED FY2025£1.6m——unclear—no doubt
THE CHOSEN GENERATION ASSEMBLY RCCG FY2025£49k—0unclear—no doubt

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