CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED

Registered charity 1169228 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHARITY: WATER (UK)

charity: water is disrupting the charitable sector with a vision to reinvent charity through a radically transparent model where 100% of publicly raised funds bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing countries.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£3.3m
Latest spending
£3.2m
Registered
2016
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £85,735 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,314,846. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £1,883,282, which the trustees consider appropriate to meet ongoing liabilities and protect the long-term future of operations. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: prudent to meet on-going liabilities, sufficient to ensure that all commitments can be met and to protect the long-term future of its operations (held: £1.9m)
“It is also committed to maintaining a level of reserves that is prudent to meet on-going liabilities, sufficient to ensure that all commitments can be met and to protect the long-term future of its operations.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Services donated by Charity Global, Inc.
“Services donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £301,356 (2024: £407,670).” — page 28
“Cash donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £50,174 (2024: £nil)” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Cash donated by Charity Global, Inc.
“Services donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £301,356 (2024: £407,670).” — page 28
“Cash donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £50,174 (2024: £nil)” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations from trustees
“Services donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £301,356 (2024: £407,670).” — page 28
“Cash donated by Charity Global, Inc.: £50,174 (2024: £nil)” — page 28
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Total income
£3.3m
Total spending
£3.2m
Cost of raising funds
£41k
Reserves (reported)
£1.9m
Employees
4

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Bolivia · Burkina Faso · Cambodia · Central African Republic · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · India · Ivory Coast

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£3.3m£3.2m
30/09/2024£3.8m£3.8m
30/09/2023£2.6m£2.0m
31/12/2022£3.0m£3.1m
31/12/2021£3.5m£3.3m

Common questions

Is CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £85,735 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,314,846. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £1,883,282, which the trustees consider appropriate to meet ongoing liabilities and protect the long-term future of operations. The auditor confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by TC Group.

Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED as a grant recipient include Founders Pledge Ltd, THE BLAKEY FOUNDATION, THE GRACE TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
Founders Pledge LtdFY2021£386k
THE BLAKEY FOUNDATIONFY2025£10k
THE GRACE TRUSTFY2021£3k

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.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WATER FOR KIDS.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED£3.3m——above—no doubt
WATER FOR KIDS FY2026£128k—0above—no doubt
WATERAID FY2025£92.1m——above28.0%no doubt
INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION FY2024£8.9m——unclear—no doubt
GROUP OF GOOD DEEDS FY2024£105k—0unclear—no doubt
FRANK WATER PROJECTS FY2025£415kunclear0unclear—no doubt

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