Overall GiG Score: 19 ?
Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 8
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Excess reserves: -2
  • Large legacies income: +1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

WAR ON WANT 

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for human rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • This charity has received considerable income from legacies in recent years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £4,375,930 available, equivalent to 27 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
Established: 62 years
(64 years as a company)

www.waronwant.org

support@waronwant.org

02073245040

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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£2,023£1,920£102£369£4,986£4,37627.3200
31/03/22£4,167£1,928£2,239£383£4,970£4,25826.5220
31/03/21£1,731£1,705£26£375£2,725£1,3979.8200
31/03/20£2,250£1,714£536£424£2,580£1,99914201
31/03/19£1,614£1,716£-102£438£2,063£1,76112.3180
31/03/18£1,658£1,981£-323£581£2,129£1,79710.9250
31/03/17£1,941£2,044£-103£519£2,440£2,05112200
31/03/16*£2,055£1,885£170£499£2,483£1,95112.4210
31/03/15£2,114£1,942£172£615£2,305£1,89811.7200
31/03/14*£1,816£1,667£149£433£2,130£1,88413.6210
31/03/13£2,059£1,658£401£361£1,969£1,60911.6200
31/03/12£1,599£1,680£-81£354£1,533£1,1948.5200
31/03/11£1,876£2,015£-139£353£1,628£1,2997.7220
31/03/10*£1,880£1,832£48£409£1,753£1,4639.6200
31/03/09£2,488£2,352£137£417£1,655£1,4557.4180
31/03/08*£2,010£2,048£-37£377£1,584£1,4508.5180
31/03/07*£1,959£1,931£27£455£1,603£1,3798.6200
31/03/06£1,796£2,099£-302£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/05£2,876£1,805£1,070£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/04£1,625£1,694£-69£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 18.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 19.7%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 13%
Highest pay band: £80,000-£90,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 7%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 88%
Reserves/Spending: 27.3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 23 months
Quick Ratio: 24.8
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Human Rights/Religious Or Racial Harmony/Equality Or Diversity
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Who works here?
  • 20 employees
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
Where it operates
  • Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Hackney, Honduras, Iraq, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Peru, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zambia,

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Lankelly Chase Foundation£340,000
The Blagrave Trust£45,000
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch£6,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Lankelly Chase Foundation - Grant to War on Want
£340,000 20/01/2022
War on Want
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, UK Branch - War on Want
£6,000 18/03/2021
Commissioning an evaluator to work with a community of practitioners who are undertaking public engagement work in advance of COP26, to co-design and test an evaluation framework for public ....more
The Blagrave Trust - COP26 Coordinator costs
£45,000 27/03/2020
Civil society coordination at COP 26
Comic Relief - Realising slum dwellers' rights to decent housing,basic services & tenure security in South Africa
£727,450 27/01/2016
60
Nearly two million people live in slums in South Africa and the numbers have been increasing. Slum dwellers, squatters and poor people are faced with landlessness, evictions, lack of decent housing ....more
Comic Relief - To improve the quality of life of street vendors and marketers living and working in slums in Kenya
£590,719 27/05/2015
60
In Kenya most traders buy and sell in the street. This means constantly moving, or struggling to claim and keep their patch. Toilets and water are a rarity. By coming together and demanding ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Building Food Security in Sri Lanka
£395,022 18/12/2013
36
Building Food Security in Sri Lanka

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 33-76
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/09/1962, number: 208724
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/06/1959, number: 00629916
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Financial Conduct Authority
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR16: 2 days late, AR14: 2 days late, AR10: 52 days late, AR08: 6 days late, AR07: 2 days late,
Main office

WAR ON WANT
44-48 SHEPHERDESS WALK
LONDON
N1 7JP

Objectives

1.TO RELIEVE GLOBAL POVERTY HOWEVER CAUSED THROUGH WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 2.TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS DEFINED IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) AND, IN PARTICULAR, SUCH HUMAN RIGHTS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO THE RELIEF OF GLOBAL POVERTY BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS, RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE, PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS, RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES. 3.TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC INTO THE CAUSES OF POVERTY AND THE WAYS OF REDUCING POVERTY BY CONDUCTING RESEARCH AND PUBLISHING AND DISSEMINATING THE FINDINGS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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