WATERAID

Registered charity 288701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATER AID · also registered in Scotland as SC039479 (OSCR)

WaterAid is an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Only by tackling these three essentials in ways that last can people change their lives for good.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with an unrestricted deficit of £4.6m, reducing its general income fund to £19m. This balance is above the stated reserves policy target range of £13m to £17m. The trustees confirm sufficient liquidity to meet obligations for at least 18 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Effect of urban vs rural context on effectiveness of a community intervention to prevent diarrhoea and stunting in young children in Mali —
• Water stressed cities: individual choice, access to water and pathways to resilience in sub-Saharan Africa —
• Project Fair - Expanding At Scale —
• Institutions for Urban Poor's Access to Ecosystem Services: A Comparison of Green and Water Structures in Bangladesh and Tanzania —
• A Hidden Crisis: unravelling current failures for future success in rural groundwater supply —
• Water stressed cities: individual choice, access to water and pathways to resilience in sub-Saharan Africa —
• RECIRCULATE: Driving eco-innovation in africa: capacity-building for a safe circular water economy —
• Building understanding of climate variability into planning of groundwater supplies from low storage aquifers in Africa - Second Phase (BRAVE2) —

Trustpilot: WaterAid scores 1.8/5 from 86 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Supporter Relationship Manager — £47,423 per year · Canary Wharf (Hybrid) · posted 2 weeks ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Senior Marketing Officer - Supporter Activation — £41,325 per year · London (On-site) · posted 1 week ago (seen 21/08/2026)
• Global Head of Assurance · Hybrid work in London
• Global Head of Assurance · Hybrid work in London
• Global Communications Lead — 61,645 · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 21/08/2026)

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

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: 28.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JAMES GREENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alyson Margaret Clark
• Ashvin Dayal
• Dr Guido Schmidt-Traub · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilary Frances Wild
• Hind Al-Khatib
• Nina Marta Pertwee
• Osward Mulenga Chanda
• Peter John Simpson
• Richard James Morris
• Ruth Esme Jefferson
• Sanjay Nair
• Simi Sadaf Kamal

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burkina Faso · Ethiopia · Ghana · Liberia · Madagascar · Malawi · Mali · Mozambique · Nepal · Niger · Nigeria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• WATERAID INTERNATIONAL income £915k
• CHARITY GLOBAL (UK) LIMITED income £3.3m
• WATER FOR KIDS income £128k
• INTERNATIONAL WATER ASSOCIATION income £8.9m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• PUMP AID income £959k

Side by side with its peers

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