STOPWATCH

Registered charity 1161908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

StopWatch is a coalition of legal experts, academics, citizens and civil liberties campaigners. We aim to address excess and disproportionate stop and search, promote best practice and ensure fair, effective policing for all.

Objects

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 1) TO PROMOTE THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE USE OF STOP AND SEARCH POWERS. 2) TO PROMOTE ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT IN POLICING, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO THE USE OF STOP AND SEARCH POWERS TO ENSURE POLICING IS FAIR, EFFECTIVE AND ACCOUNTABLE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £139,834 for the period, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted funds of £367,750. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds a significant cash balance of £355,613 and has no outstanding creditors falling due within one year other than accruals. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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.

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 31/03/2021 (received 10/02/2022, 10 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (60% 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

• NEENA SAMOTAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr MICHAEL SHINER
• Dr REBEKAH DELSOL
• MICHAEL ALEXANDER OSWALD
• PROF BEN BOWLING
• Paul Henry Mortimer · trustee of 1 other charity
• Prof Lee Thomas Bridges

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 TAXWATCH.

• TAXWATCH income £190k
• STOP HATE UK income £478k
• PATIENT SAFETY WATCH income £160k
• NATUREWATCH FOUNDATION income £389k
• HEALTHWATCH CITY OF LONDON income £98k
• STOP THE TRAFFIK income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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