GREENPEACE ENVIRONMENTAL TRUST

Registered charity 284934 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GREENPEACE ENVIROMENTAL TRUST

The Trust aims to achieve its objectives by funding work that includes education, scientific research, investigations and promoting sustainable development.In the medium to long term we are prioritising work in the areas of Climate change, Forests, and Oceans.We work closely with other Greenpeace entities around the world so as to maximise the impact of our charitable work.

Objects

(A) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN WORLD ECOLOGY. (B) TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC CONCERNING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND EFFECTS ON THAT ENVIRONMENT OF BOTH NATURAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WHETHER PURSUED BY MAN OR NOT. (C) TO CONDUCT AND PROCURE RESEARCH CONCERNING WORLD ECOLOGY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND THE EFFECTS ON THAT ENVIRONMENT OF BOTH NATURAL AND OTHER ACTIVITIES WHETHER PURSUED BY MAN OR NOT AND TO PUBLISH USEFUL RESULTS OF THAT RESEARCH. (D)TO RELIEVE ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SICKNESS OR SUFFERING AMONG BOTH HUMANS AND ANIMALS WHICH IS A CONSEQUENCE OF ANY CHANGE TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT WHETHER CAUSED BY MAN OR NOT. (E) TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES AND THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS " DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS."

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £14.5 million, driven primarily by legacy income, while grant expenditure rose significantly to £15.4 million. Consequently, the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing its unrestricted reserves to £3.1 million, which remains above the trustees' stated target range of £437,000 to £583,000. The trustees maintain that the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to meet its objectives.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac 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.

• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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 — Greenpeace (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR STEVE WARSHALchair
• Andrew McParland
• COLIN HINES
• GEORGE CRAIG MACFARLANE
• Moira Alison Reynolds
• Susan Ann Cooper

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

Operates in: China · Indonesia · Islington · Japan · Russia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• EARTH TRUST income £2.6m
• GREENSEAS TRUST income £29k
• GREENGATE TRUST income £2.0m
• ECOLOGICAL CONTINUITY TRUST income £244k
• FRIENDS OF THE EARTH CHARITABLE TRUST income £15.3m
• GLOBAL WITNESS 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.