WATER FOR KIDS

Registered charity 1178084 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of water, sanitation and hygiene education in low income countries.

Objects

THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND COMMUNITIES IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF SAFE WATER, GOOD SANITATION AND OTHER RELATED PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES WHERE CURRENT PROVISION IS ABSENT OR INADEQUATE.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rutland, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income reached a record £128,307, resulting in an excess of income over expenditure of £22,356. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves of £51,956 were maintained well above their stated minimum policy target of £10,000. The charity confirms it is a going concern with adequate funding for its needs.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Water For Kids (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• BARBARA LUCAS
• Beverley Salmon
• Eilidh Ruth Naismith
• Elaine Rudman
• GREG WARWICK
• JASON COX
• John Machin
• Patrice Panella
• Sara Jane Emanuel · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kenya · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Sara Jane Emanuel — trustee here and at THE JUSACA CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

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

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 GROUNDWATER RELIEF.

• GROUNDWATER RELIEF income £1.4m
• INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION income £11.1m
• OUR KIDS income £19.3m
• ACTION FOR CHILDREN income £163.4m
• WELLBORING income £278k
• QUEST FOR LEARNING income £188k

Side by side with its peers

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