GIVING WHAT WE CAN UK

Registered charity 1207964 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Giving What We Can UK advances education and promotes the voluntary sector, charity effectiveness, and impactful resource use by conducting research to identify and support highly effective charities, disseminating useful research findings, and providing guidance to maximise charitable impact. Its activities include advising, researching, making grants, and advocating for effective giving.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND(B) THE PROMOTION, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, OF:(I) THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR;(II) THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES; AND(III) THE EFFECTIVE USE OF RESOURCES TO ACHIEVE CHARITABLE PURPOSES, BY, TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SAME IS EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE AND FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(C) CONDUCTING RESEARCH TO IDENTIFY AND SUPPORT EFFECTIVE CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS AND DISSEMINATING THE USEFUL PRODUCTS OF SUCH RESEARCH;(D) PROVIDING GUIDANCE TO HELP MAXIMISE IMPACT IN THE CHARITABLE AND VOLUNTARY SECTORS; AND(E) MAKING GRANTS.

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 · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £1,815,239 for the year, driven by grantmaking disbursements exceeding incoming resources. However, the accounts state the charity is in a strong financial position with unrestricted reserves of £1,708,200, which the trustees confirm sufficiently covers six months of expected cash outflow. The trustees and auditors both concluded that 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 Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sjir Hoeijmakers — CEO (source)
• Zuber Nosimohomed — Chair & Director (source)
• Seth Holoweiko — Chair & Director (source)
• Max Klijnstra — Chief Growth Officer (source)
• James Steijger — Chief Operations Officer (source)
• James Rayton — Director (source)
• Ben Cogan — Director (source)
• Jeff Kaufman — Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Zuber Nosimohomedchair
• Andrew Keith Sutton
• Dr Matti Wilks
• Habiba Banu · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Darcy Cockhill

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

Operates in: 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

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 UK FUND FOR CHARITIES.

• UK FUND FOR CHARITIES income £4.6m
• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• GWENT ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS income £3.0m
• GIVING WORLD income £212k
• BETTER GIVING PARTNERSHIP income £29k
• EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION income £12.1m

Side by side with its peers

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