SALT OF THE EARTH

Registered charity 328328 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Salt of the Earth (SOTE) was founded in 1988 to support the work of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Tamil Nadu, India. SOTE currently supports programmes focused on women?s empowerment, income generation, health, education and environmental preservation.

Objects

TO RELIEVE POVERTY, ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROTECT HEALTH AMONGST PERSONS LIVING IN UNDER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES (PARTICULARLY IN VILLAGES AND RURAL AREAS WITHIN SUCH COUNTRIES).

Area of benefit: UNDER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a healthy surplus of £53,483 and total funds increased to £73,483. The trustees report that income increased by approximately 5% due to successful funding applications and sterling strengthening, while outgoings were reduced through staff savings. The charity expresses confidence in carrying this success forward into 2026.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Salt of the Earth (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MURRAY ROY FRANKLANDchair
• Anne Walker · trustee of 2 other charities
• BELINDA CALLAND
• BRIAN WOODCOCK
• CELIA BARDEN
• DAVID PETER BRADLY
• JANET ELISTA
• Jane Elizabeth Fielding
• SIMON FIELDING OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Vincent John Jupp

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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