WELL GROUNDED LIMITED

Registered charity 1176051 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WELL GROUNDED

We support the development of civil society organisations in Africa to reach their full potential and achieve real, positive change for environmental and social justice.

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£1.3m

Latest spending

£1.2m

Registered

2017

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 12% to £1,272,232, resulting in a net surplus of £31,413 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a risk-based reserves policy targeting three months of operating costs, with actual unrestricted reserves of £137,406 and total reserves of £314,285. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization has adequate resources to continue its work for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of operating costs (held: £137k)

“Our general reserves have continued to grow steadily each year, moving towards the target level of covering at least three months of operating costs” — page 13

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Amex Associates Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Total income

£1.3m

Total spending

£1.2m

Reserves (reported)

£137k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~1.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alison Coburn
Fidele Honorine Yobo
Gilbert Badashonderana Masumbuko
Julia Stange

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

Operates in: Cameroon · Central African Republic · Congo · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Gabon · Liberia

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.3m	£1.2m
31/03/2024	£1.1m	£1.0m
31/03/2023	£850k	£779k
31/03/2022	£320k	£465k
31/03/2021	£414k	£428k

Common questions

Is WELL GROUNDED LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased by 12% to £1,272,232, resulting in a net surplus of £31,413 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a risk-based reserves policy targeting three months of operating costs, with actual unrestricted reserves of £137,406 and total reserves of £314,285. The trustees and auditors confirm the organization has adequate resources to continue its work for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Amex Associates Limited.

Who funds WELL GROUNDED LIMITED?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WELL GROUNDED LIMITED as a grant recipient include SYNCHRONICITY EARTH, THE BADUR FOUNDATION, THE SAVOY EDUCATIONAL TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH	FY2024	£102k	Congo Basin
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH	FY2023	£66k	Congo Basin
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH	FY2022	£59k
THE BADUR FOUNDATION	FY2024	£45k
THE BADUR FOUNDATION	FY2023	£20k
SYNCHRONICITY EARTH	FY2021	£11k
THE SAVOY EDUCATIONAL TRUST	FY2022	£5k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
WALES COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION	1	£900k
LOCAL TRUST	1	£871k
BUPA FOUNDATION	1	£630k
THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION	1	£35k
THE NISBET TRUST	1	£27k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION	1	£20k
THE AUSTIN AND HOPE PILKINGTON TRUST	1	£5k
THE LAWSON TRUST CIO	1	£5k

Charities like this

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

THE GROUNDWORK SOUTH TRUST LIMITED income £9.4m
THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS income £48.7m
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.7m
TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £152k
GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
GROUNDWORK NORTH EAST income £8.2m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
WELL GROUNDED LIMITED	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE GROUNDWORK SOUTH TRUST LIMITED FY2024	£9.4m	—	0	unclear	—	noted
THE FEDERATION OF GROUNDWORK TRUSTS FY2025	£48.7m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WILLIAM ADLINGTON CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£1.7m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED FY2025	£152k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS FY2025	£3.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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