THE DEGREES INITIATIVE

Registered charity 1196532 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Degrees Initiative builds the capacity of developing countries to evaluate solar radiation management geoengineering and play a central role in research and discussions. The initiative's activities include providing research grants, engagement workshops and community-building activities.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £3,504,000 at the end of the financial year, which exceeds its stated policy target of three to six months' fixed expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirmed that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern, supported by strong funder indications and a positive net movement in funds.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 13290405

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MURPHY, Pauliina — director, appointed 28/09/2023on trustee list
• RAHMAN, Mohammed Mofizur — director, appointed 28/09/2023on trustee list
• KADO, Jacqueline Alice Akinyi — director, appointed 28/04/2022on trustee list
• MORTON, Oliver Edmund — director, appointed 24/03/2021on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~20.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Oliver Edmund Mortonchair
• Jacqueline Alice Akinyi Kado
• Mohammed Mofizur Rahman
• Pauliina Murphy

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

Operates in: Argentina · Benin · Indonesia · South Africa · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Side by side with its peers

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