GROUNDWATER RELIEF

Registered charity 1167458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provide groundwater expertise and services to other organisations developing and managing groundwater resources for the benefit of those living in poverty or who lack access to a safe and affordable water.Support and build the capacity of groundwater professionals

Objects

TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AND PROMOTE THE GOOD HEALTH OF PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY DEVELOPING THEIR AND THEIR WATER PROVIDERS CAPACITY TO SUSTAINABLY USE AND DEVELOP GROUNDWATER RESOURCES.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income exceeded £1 million for the first time, resulting in a surplus and increasing total funds to £293,037. The charity maintains free reserves of £243,531, which is above its stated policy target of up to six months' running costs. The auditor confirmed 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

Accounts audited by Darnells Audit Limited. 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr KIRSTY UPTON PHD FGS
• Emma Stevenson
• Mark Rosling
• Stephen Poulter

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burma · Burundi · Cambodia · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Congo · Congo (Democratic Republic)

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE RIVERS TRUST.

• THE RIVERS TRUST income £10.5m
• WATER FOR KIDS income £128k
• LIVING WATERS EUROPE income £192k
• THE FRESHWATER FOUNDATION income £27k
• POVERTY RELIEF FOUNDATION LIMITED income £59k
• RIVER NETWORK income £234k

Side by side with its peers

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