The Global Returns Project Limited

Registered charity 1186683 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CLIMATE CRISIS FOUNDATION LIMITED

We provide grant-based funding to charitable organizations focussed on combatting climate change. We select them based on a detailed methodology and monitor their effectiveness on an ongoing basis. We work with financial institutions to make it normal and easy for their clients to provide grant funding to these organizations. We educate on issues associated with climate change.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND RELATED CLIMATE SYSTEMS INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION BY SUPPORTING INITIATIVES WHICH REDUCE ATMOSPHERIC CONCENTRATIONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND OTHER GREENHOUSE GASES;(2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IN THE SUBJECTS OF CLIMATE SCIENCE, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED FIELDS AND DISCIPLINES PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCH ARE PUBLISHED; AND (3) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER COMPLIMENTARY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £183,996, which represented 154% of the charity's stated policy target of six months' running costs. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, with total income of £1,865,539 against total expenditure of £1,883,245, resulting in a small net decrease in unrestricted funds. The trustees confirmed the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by A C Mole LLP. 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
• 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
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanna Hermione Seager Baconchair
• Alexandrina Sofia Blount
• Camilla Joan Swiderska
• Jasper Rayner Augusto Judd
• Stefanie Pfeil · trustee of 1 other charity
• Yan Carlos Swiderski · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Albania · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · British Virgin Islands · Bulgaria · Canada · Croatia

Income and spending

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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 GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK.

• GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND UK income £4.9m
• CLIMATE RESPONSE LIMITED income £545k
• GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK income £1.6m
• GLOBAL SOURCENET income £49k
• GIVING WORLD income £212k
• REVERT2REALITY income £96k

Side by side with its peers

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