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THE GAIA FOUNDATION

Registered charity 327412 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gaia works to revive bio-cultural diversity, to regenerate healthy ecosystems and to strengthen community ecological governance for climate change resilience. We work with partner organisations, communities and movements. Our activities focus on Food, Seed and Climate Change Resilience, Sacred Lands and Wilderness, Earth Jurisprudence, and looking Beyond Extractivism.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.7m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
1987
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 58% to £1,720,931, while total expenditure rose by 13% to £1,609,208, resulting in a net movement in funds of £111,723. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £259,039 are considered sufficient to cover three to four months of fixed costs, aligning with the charity's reserves policy. The charity maintains a positive cash position with unrestricted funds covering anticipated operational costs for the following year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: Over £60,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)
“The number of employees whose emoluments were over £60,000 was one (2024: one).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Employees paid over £60,000: 1
“The number of employees whose emoluments were over £60,000 was one (2024: one).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Largest income source: Restricted Donations/Grants (99% of income)
“Restricted income amounted to £1,701,201 (2024: £1,038,762), or 99% of Gaia’s total income (2024: 95%).”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: three to four months of fixed costs (held: £259k)
“Gaia has agreed that to safeguard the continuity of its operations, the level of unrestricted reserves at year-end should be sufficient to cover three to four months of fixed costs for the following year.” — page 35
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

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

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

Total income
£1.7m
Total spending
£1.6m
Cost of raising funds
£14k
Reserves (reported)
£259k
Employees
11

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Australia · Benin · Botswana · Brazil · Cameroon · Canada · Colombia · Ethiopia · Finland · Ghana · Ireland · Kenya

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.7m£1.6m
31/12/2024£1.1m£1.4m
31/12/2023£1.5m£1.3m
31/12/2022£1.3m£1.2m
31/12/2021£1.4m£1.1m

Common questions

Is THE GAIA FOUNDATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income increased by 58% to £1,720,931, while total expenditure rose by 13% to £1,609,208, resulting in a net movement in funds of £111,723. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves of £259,039 are considered sufficient to cover three to four months of fixed costs, aligning with the charity's reserves policy. The charity maintains a positive cash position with unrestricted funds covering anticipated operational costs for the following year. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Chariot House Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of THE GAIA FOUNDATION earn?

Per its FY2025 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the Over £60,000 band, and 1 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds THE GAIA FOUNDATION?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE GAIA FOUNDATION as a grant recipient include THIRTY PERCY FOUNDATION, THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATION, THE RODDICK FOUNDATION, THE A TEAM FOUNDATION LIMITED, SYNCHRONICITY EARTH.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THIRTY PERCY FOUNDATIONFY2022£115kSystems Fund
THIRTY PERCY FOUNDATIONFY2023£100k
THE CRUCIBLE FOUNDATIONFY2025£90k
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2024£80k
THE A TEAM FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2022£70k
SYNCHRONICITY EARTHFY2023£32kBiocultural Diversity
SYNCHRONICITY EARTHFY2024£32kBiocultural Diversity
THE SAVITRI WANEY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£30kGrants to institutions
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2026£30k
THE SAVITRI WANEY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£30kEnvironmental Health - Food, Farming and Land
THE SAVITRI WANEY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£25kSeed Programme for seed sovereignty
THE RODDICK FOUNDATIONFY2025£20k
THE SAVITRI WANEY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£20kSeed Sovereignty Project
SYNCHRONICITY EARTHFY2025£15kBiocultural Diversity Programme
SYNCHRONICITY EARTHFY2022£14k
THE A TEAM FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2023£10k
THE DIXON FOUNDATIONFY2023£10k
THE SAVITRI WANEY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5kChampioning Changemakers (Love Trust Grant)
THE DIXON FOUNDATIONFY2022£2k

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Farming The Future22/05/2026£15kThe Crowd Breeding Network
Farming The Future01/09/2025£70kRISE: Resilient Infrastructure for a Successful Emergence in the UK’s Grain Economy
Farming The Future18/05/2020£12kEnsuring the Seeds of Food Sovereignty Continue to be Sown
Farming The Future31/01/2020£3kWe Feed the World: Amplifying International Grassroots Voices in a UK Context
Farming The Future31/01/2020£16kSave our Seed: Cultivating Resilience in our Farming System - European Exchanges for Inspiration, Collaboration and Emergence
The National Lottery Community Fund21/09/2018£10kWe Feed the World Events Programme
The National Lottery Community Fund21/05/2014£10kThe London Seed and Food Festival

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
TACKLE AFRICA1£45k
CHOOSE LOVE1£35k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE GAIA FOUNDATION£1.7mOver £60,0001within—no doubt
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£7.8m——above—no doubt
THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY FOUNDATION FY2025£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt
GAIA HOUSE TRUST FY2025£1.3m—0above—no doubt
THE PERIVOLI FOUNDATION FY2023£3.5m—0unclear—no doubt
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION FUND FY2024£32.3m——unclear—no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.