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Registered charity (CIO) · Oxfordshire

The Waste and Resources Action Programme

To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £29m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Environment/conservation/heritage
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland
Website
www.wrap.ngo (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2014

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£29m£30m
  • 2024£30m£27m
  • 2023£24m£25m
Earlier years
  • 2022£27m£25m
  • 2021£16m£23m
Charitable objects

To promote for the benefit of the public the conservation protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

3.5y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

3.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Environment/conservation/heritage 10Arts/culture/heritage/science 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 1Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£28.7m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 3.1 in 2021

292 from 195 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
50%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1159512
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - FOUNDATION CONVERSIONDATED 28 NOV 2022 as amended on 10 Jul 2024
Contact on the register
01295819605 · info@wrap.ngo
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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