TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATE SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY AND EXPERTISE - UNITED KINGDOM (TASTE-UK)

Registered charity 1209253 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TASTE-UK

TASTE works in Nigeria helping needy communities and civil society organisations gain access to clean drinking water and improved sanitation using a local labour force who are given the necessary training. In so doing, we seek to work in ways which demonstrate practical Christian values of honesty, trustworthiness, integrity and respect for all.

Objects

TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE HEALTH OF PEOPLE IN NIGERIA BY ENABLING THEM TO LOCATE AND ACCESS UNDERGROUND WATER STORES AS WELL AS THE SAFE USE OF THE NECESSARY EQUIPMENT TO ACHIEVE THIS, AND PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF ANY OTHER ASSOCIATED FACILITIES, SUPPORT SERVICES AND EQUIPMENT NOT NORMALLY PROVIDED BY THE STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN NIGERIA IN HEALTH CARE, BY THE PROVISION OF LECTURES, FORA, AND BY THE PUBLICATION OF NEWSLETTERS DEVOTED TO HEALTHCARE.

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds total £36,820, with a reserves policy to keep reserves in a positive state. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £42,400, driven largely by transfers from the previous charity entity, and incurred total resources expended of £70,875 against incoming resources of £74,643.

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 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Taste (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Robert Colemanchair
• ANDREW BRYCE
• Carol Thomson
• Carol Thomson
• Dr Ibiwari Erekosima
• Marilyn Stanley

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

Operates in: Nigeria

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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