NATIONAL ENERGY ACTION

Registered charity 290511 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q6972443 · Wikipedia · also known as NEA, NEA CYMRU, NEA NI, NEA NORTHERN IRELAND, NEIGHBOURHOOD ENERGY ACTION

RESEARCHING AND ANALYSING THE CAUSES AND EXTENT OF FUEL POVERTY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLICIES TO ADDRESS IT.MANAGING PROJECTS IN INNER CITIES AND RURAL AREAS WHICH SHOW INNOVATIVE WAYS OF TACKLING FUEL POVERTY AND THAT BRING WIDER BENEFITS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES.CAMPAIGNING TO INCREASE RESOURCES TO ERADICATE FUEL POVERTY. PROVISION OF ADVICE AND TRAINING SERVICES.

Objects

The Charity is established to carry out the following objects for the benefit of the public:(a) the relief of poverty, financial hardship and disadvantage and the advancement of health by promoting the improvement and optimisation of living conditions, particularly in relation to the use of energy and resources (including energy for heating purposes) among persons who are in necessitous circumstances including (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) those in charitable need whose housing conditions are unsatisfactory, or those living in fuel poor households;(b) the advancement of public education and awareness about all aspects of the affordable and efficient use of energy and resources; and(c) the promotion of, or assistance in promoting, vocational training and learning for the benefit of persons seeking to assist the classes of persons described in sub-clause (a) above through their employment or work with those persons described as living in poverty."the or these Objects"In these Objects:"poverty" shall be interpreted in the broadest sense and shall include not only financial need or hardship, but also cover adverse social conditions and circumstances which preclude the ability of a person to achieve a reasonable standard of living or welfare, including in relation to their health and wellbeing; and"necessitous circumstances" shall include any circumstance which would impede a person's ability to remove themselves from poverty without the Charity's support.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus on activities of £1,099,617, driven by lower staffing costs and higher bank interest receipts than anticipated. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £6,547,230, which exceeds the stated policy target range of £3.6 million to £4.4 million. The trustees confirmed that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by PKF Littlejohn 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Energy Conversations Workshop with National Energy Action in Newtown shropshirestar.com · 09/12/2025
• E.ON colleagues conquer the Great North Run for fuel poverty charity, National Energy Action news.eonenergy.com · 23/10/2025
• Reactive Response – National Energy Action cadentgas.com · 12/02/2024
• October is National Energy Action Month incirlik.af.mil · 03/10/2022
• ‘People will die’, says the CEO of National Energy Action channel4.com · 31/03/2022
• National Energy Action Month offers DLA Energy opportunities dla.mil · 17/12/2021
• VA Educates on Energy Conservation during National Energy Action Month news.va.gov · 23/10/2013

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01853927

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — National Energy Action (NEA) (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Adam Scorer — Chief Executive (source)
• Audra Peacock — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Danni Barnes — Deputy Chief Executive (source)
• Peter Sumby — Director of Communities (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MALLINSON, Jonathan — director, appointed 20/05/2026on trustee list
• BARMAKI, Ieman — director, appointed 20/05/2026on trustee list
• VINE, Morgan Elisabeth — director, appointed 20/05/2026on trustee list
• HALL, Doulton James — director, appointed 20/05/2026on trustee list
• HASZCZYN, Donald Stephen — director, appointed 22/05/2025on trustee list
• WOOD, Janet — director, appointed 17/03/2025on trustee list
• HOPKINS, Sarah Gwen — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• CHERRETT, Karen Elizabeth — director, appointed 08/07/2024on trustee list
• HUSSAIN, Nusheen — director, appointed 08/07/2024not on trustee list
• DEBOYS, David Iain — director, appointed 21/07/2022on trustee list
• SCOTT, Jason Frazer — director, appointed 29/05/2020on trustee list
• HALL, David — director, appointed 01/12/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Helen — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• HOWARD, Robert — director, appointed 14/05/2019on trustee list
• ARCHER, Tracey Ann — secretary, appointed 01/08/2011

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Iain Deboyschair
• Donald Stephen Haszczyn
• Doulton James Hall
• Frazer Scott
• Ieman Barmaki
• Janet Wood
• Jonathan Mallinson
• Karen Elizabeth Cherrett
• Morgan Elisabeth Vine · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nusheen Hussain BA Hons
• Robert Howard
• Sarah Hopkins

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY.

• SEVERN WYE ENERGY AGENCY income £6.5m
• ACT ON ENERGY income £4.7m
• NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR VOLUNTARY AND COMMUNITY ACTION income £890k
• POWER FOR THE PEOPLE income £230k
• THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH income £3.3m
• THE NATIONAL ENERGY FOUNDATION income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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