CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY ALLIANCE

Registered charity 1204669 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CBA

CBA provides funding , expertise, and know how to facilitate projects designed to accelerate the transition to a "circular bioeconomy" that is climate neutral, inclusive and prospers in harmony with nature. Circular bioeconomy means a system where renewable biological resources from the land and sea (such as plants, animals, micro-organisms and derived biomass) are restored and sustainably managed

Objects

3.1 TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE TRANSFORMATION OF DEGRADED LAND INTO REGENERATIVE LANDSCAPES THAT ARE BIODIVERSITY POSITIVE AND CLIMATE NEUTRAL.3.2 TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:3.2.1 THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES;3.2.2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES; AND3.2.3 THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION OF NATURE;3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH IN SUCH SUBJECTS PROVIDED THAT THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH ARE DISSEMINATED TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS “DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.”

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,282,621, which significantly exceed the trustees' stated policy target of approximately three months of running costs (less than £200,000). Per the trustees' report, the charity incurred a net expenditure of £37,371 for the year, resulting in a slight decrease in total reserves from the previous period, but the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 4 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
• Paying staff
• 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

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 — Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (matched by registered charity number).

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

Reported reserves equal ~23.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% 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: 30.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAME AMELIA CHILCOTT FAWCETTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Federico Marchetti
• Professor Nathalie Seddon
• Tanya Margaret Anne Steele · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Brazil · Chad · China · Colombia · Ecuador · Ghana · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Madagascar · Mozambique · Nigeria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ECOBIRMINGHAM.

• ECOBIRMINGHAM income £529k
• CIBUS FOUNDATION LIMITED income £90k
• BIOCAP LIMITED income £125k
• CIRCULARITY.ORG income £18k
• BALANCED EARTH income £37k
• CHRISTIAN ECOLOGY LINK income £67k

Side by side with its peers

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