THE WASTE AND RESOURCES ACTION PROGRAMME

Registered charity 1159512 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WRAP

WRAP's vision is a thriving world in which climate change is no longer a problem. WRAP's mission is to make the world a more sustainable place. We bring people together, we act on the facts and we drive change. Our core purpose is to help tackle climate change and protect our planet by changing the way things are produced, consumed and disposed of.

Objects

To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 5.3% to £28.7m, while total expenditure increased by 10.9% to £29.5m, resulting in a net decrease in total funds of £3.6m. The charity holds £14.9m in actual reserves against a minimum required balance of £9.4m, with the Trustees confirming that adequate resources are available to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sebastian Munden — Chair (source)
• Catherine David — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Sarah Chapman — Deputy Chair (source)
• Jill Riseley — APAC Chair (source)
• Robert ter Kuile — Americas Chair Designate (source)
• Leah Karrer — Executive Director, Americas (source)
• Sofie Schop — Executive Director, EU & Global Partnerships (source)
• David Hall — Executive Director, Behaviour Change (source)

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (94% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Jones
• Dario Alfonso Soto Abril
• Jillian Michelle Perry Riseley
• Michael Kwame Nkonu
• Michaelene Gabrielle Welsh
• Robert Christian ter Kuile
• Sarah Katherine Chapman
• Sebastian John Munden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shruti Dudhia
• Vijay Chandrakant Doshi

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.

• HOPE FOR THE FUTURE income £422k
• WRAP AROUND SUPPORTING PEOPLE income £309k
• WASTE NOT WANT NOT LIMITED income £181k
• ACTION CHANGE income £163k
• WWF - UK income £89.3m
• TRANSITION BRO GWAUN LTD income £185k

Side by side with its peers

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