WATERAID

Registered charity 288701 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WATER AID · listed website unreachable when last crawled · also registered in Scotland as SC039479 (OSCR)

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.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

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

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).

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

• 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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