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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £129,376 in unrestricted reserves, which is below the stated policy target of six months of expected cash outflow (£239,388). However, the trustees confirm the charity is in a strong financial position with no fund deficits and no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~145.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

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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 GIVEWELL UK.

• GIVEWELL UK income £20.5m
• GLOBAL GIVING UK income £3.3m
• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM UK income £136k
• EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION income £12.1m
• IMPACT GIVING UK TRUST income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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