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Registered charity · London

WAR on Want

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £4.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
Where
Hackney, Bangladesh, Brazil, China and more
Website
www.waronwant.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
WAR on Want
Registered
1962

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£4.0m£2.7m
  • 2024£2.1m£2.5m
  • 2023£2.0m£1.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.2m£1.9m
  • 2021£1.7m£1.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

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.

Grants received

18 grants · £4,692,257 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

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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.

10 trustees on the board

3.2y median 3y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

10
company-linked trustees

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

Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity 10Overseas Aid/famine Relief 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 10

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

Health and social care 14Education 3Other services 3

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£4.0m 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.

7.4 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.7 in 2021

28 from 20 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.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
208724
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 08/06/1959AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/02/1962AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/03/1965AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 30/04/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25/09/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/02/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22/03/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 25 JUN 2021AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02 AUG 2024
Companies House
Company number 00629916 · Active
Contact on the register
02073245040 · support@waronwant.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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