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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION:(A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, HUNGER AND RELATED SUFFERING, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE IMPROVEMENT OF WATER SUPPLIES AND SANITATION;(B) THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND NEED RESULTING FROM PREVENTABLE DISEASE; (C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.

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

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £85,735 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,314,846. Free reserves stood at £1,883,282, which the trustees consider appropriate for the charity's circumstances. The auditor 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

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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

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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Scott Harrison — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Melissa Russell — President (source)
• Ben Greene — Chief Revenue Officer (source)
• Brian Hoyer — Chief Water Programs Officer (source)
• Christa Stelzmuller — Chief Technology Officer (source)
• John Passauer — Chief Financial Officer (source)
• Ceena Johnson — General Counsel (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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Eniola Aluko
• LUKE BEAUCHAMP
• Onyeije Nwokorie
• Pierre Patrick Mercier
• Rachel Helen Manktelow
• SAMUEL MICHAEL LAWSON JOHNSTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• SCOTT HARRISON

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

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• CHARITY TAX GROUP income £250k
• GRIFAID income £54k
• GIVING WORLD income £212k
• WATER UNITE income £993k
• THE CHARITY FINANCE GROUP income £2.0m
• UK FUND FOR CHARITIES income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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