GREENER AND CLEANER

Registered charity 1196213 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q136446396 · also known as GREENER & CLEANER BROMLEY (& BEYOND), GREENER AND CLEANER UK CIC

Greener and Cleaner was set up to protect and promote the local environment for the benefit of residents and the public, by promoting the benefits of and providing education around personal measures which can be taken, in order to contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of their households and communities.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT, AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BY:1. ADVANCING EDUCATION AND RAISING AWARENESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, RESOURCES SCARCITY, PEAK OIL AND ECONOMIC RESILIENCE AND PERSONAL MEASURES WHICH CAN BE TAKEN BY INDIVIDUALS TO CONTRIBUTE TO REDUCING THE CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THEIR HOUSEHOLDS AND COMMUNITIES;2. PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROTECTION OF HABITATS REQUIRED TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE BIODIVERSITY WITHIN COMMUNITIES;3. CARRYING OUT AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ACTIVITY TO BENEFIT RESIDENTS MOST AT RISK AND4. PROMOTING INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY AND ORGANISATIONAL COMMITMENT TO A REDUCTION IN CO2 EMISSIONS, ENERGY SAVING, REDUCING RELIANCE UPON CARBON EMITTING ENERGY SOURCES, AND INCREASING RESILIENCE TO RESOURCE SCARCITY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £444,812 from £239,344 in the prior year, while total expenditure decreased slightly to £338,224. The charity reported a net surplus for the year, resulting in unrestricted reserves rising to £174,844, which the trustees note represents just under six months' cover against their policy target of three to six months of unrestricted expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Greener and Cleaner (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Community Fund — “Meet some of our funders, partners and sponsors Community Fund” (source page)
• ASHDEN — “ASHDEN funded a Greener and Cleaner project, followed by sharing learnings and information exchange.” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carrie Heitmeyer
• Harvant Ahluwalia
• Kate Rhule
• Kevin Withane · trustee of 1 other charity
• Maria Staines
• Michael Blake
• Sumedha Bhalla
• Susan Phillips

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Croydon · Greenwich · Lewisham

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 RESTORE OUR PLANET.

• RESTORE OUR PLANET income £162k
• CLEANCONSCIENCE income £108k
• THE CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE income £1.6m
• GREEN CITY ACTION income £107k
• GREENE AND CO CHARITY LIMITED income £98k
• LOWER GREEN COMMUNITY CIO income £173k

Side by side with its peers

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