WATERAID

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity will be able to continue in operation and meet its liabilities as they fall due over the medium term. Accordingly, the Group expects to continue to have access to sufficient liquid resources to meet its obligations for a period of at least 18 months after the approval of these financial statements, namely the period to March 2027 and the Board therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the financial statements.”

Group structure

1. WATERAID · parent
   1. WaterAid Trading Limited 100% · England and Wales · identifying and undertaking commercial licensing deals
   2. WaterAid (WASH and Climate Change) Limited 100% · England and Wales · for the purpose of funding lotteries (dormant)
   3. WaterAid (WASH and Health) Limited 100% · England and Wales · for the purpose of funding lotteries (dormant)

Significant events

• “Extreme weather caused by climate change (deadly floods across West Africa, severe heatwave in Pakistan) worsened people's access to clean water.”
• “Political instability in areas such as Africa's Sahel region threatened important programmes.”
• “High inflation in many places increased the cost of reaching people.”
• “A shift in many donor countries' attitudes to international aid brought further disruption and uncertainty.”
• “2024-25 was the first year of implementation of our new ten-year Global Strategy, focused on four aims.”
• “WaterAid hosted President Tharman Shanmugaratnam of Singapore at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, January 2025.”
• “At the UN Climate Change Conference (COP) in Baku, November 2024, progress was made on climate adaptation goals.”
• “HM King Charles III brought together changemakers, young leaders, and decision makers for a Water and Climate Reception with WaterAid at Buckingham Palace, March 2025.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

12

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

4

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +1.4%

  £90,861,000 → £92,116,000

• Cash

  —

  Not reported

• Net assets

  -12.5%

  £39,212,000 → £34,310,000

• Employees

  +5.3%

  876 → 922

• Wages

  +8.2%

  £29,440,000 → £31,852,000

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. Periods don't have to be exactly 12 months apart — a long or short period (typical around incorporation or year-end changes) will distort the comparison. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers