Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

WATERHARVEST 

WaterHarvest works through local voluntary organisations with rural communities in India and Africa, primarily in relation to water but also in the are as of health, education, income generation and empowerment of women.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£389£330£59n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/22£373£436£-63n/an/an/an/an/a6
31/03/21£410£360£50n/an/an/an/an/a8
31/03/20£417£399£18n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/19£355£362£-7n/an/an/an/an/a10
31/03/18£290£292£-2£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£299£296£3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£265£321£-56£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£227£448£-221£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£264£157£107£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£336£247£88£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£377£360£17£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£351£370£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10£415£396£19£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.water-harvest.org

office@water-harvest.org

01962588200

Charity Commission for England and WalesCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Services for females
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
Where it operates
  • Ghana, India, Uganda,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 5 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Shears Foundation - www.water-harvest.org
£5,500 22/01/2024
Harvesting precious rainfall to provide urgently needed drinking water for schools in rural Uganda
The Shears Foundation - www.water-harvest.org
£5,000 09/08/2022
Harvesting precious rainwater and providing Work for Water, with the life, health and hope that flow from these
The Shears Foundation - www.water-harvest.org
£10,000 22/07/2021
Harvesting precious rainwater and providing Work for Water, with the life, health and hope that flow from these

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 47-63
Tech4good Entrepreneur, NED and Trustee for over 20 years of not for profit and international NGO’s. Digital transformation and extensive running boards and strategic plans for change management.
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 16/01/2009, number: 1127564
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/01/2008, number: 06484901
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
14 returns made; all on time
Main office

BASEPOINT
1 WINNALL VALLEY ROAD
WINCHESTER
HAMPSHIRE
SO23 0LD

Objectives

1 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE OF THE THIRD WORLD.2 OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES NOT FALLING UNDER THE ABOVE HEADING AND TO WHICH THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE TO APPLY ANY PART OF THE TRUST FUND

Defined Area of Benefit:

THE THIRD WORLD

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
CharityBase

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