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Company description
WATERAID is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)”. Incorporated on 30 January 1984; registered for 42 years; registered office reported in LONDON, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 88990 · Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c..
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 4 trade marks, 1 charity record. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- WATERAID
- Company number
- 01787329
- Company type
- PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 March 2025Next accounts due
31 December 2026Last statement made up to
30 March 2026Next statement due
13 April 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Mean bonus gap
- Not supplied
- Women receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 0.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 58.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 73.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 79.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 84.0%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 250 to 49912.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49917.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49912.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49911.3% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49910.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 49913.5% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4996.0% median hourly gap
- 250 to 4999.0% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 October 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Filed
- 24 April 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 April 2025
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £11,190,958
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £2,759,705
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £809,684
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £3,285,894
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 18.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 0.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 30 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Maximum contractual payment information
The maximum contractual payment period is 30 days. There have been no changes to the standard payment terms in the reporting period.
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
Unless stated on the invoice we endeavour to pay our suppliers within 30 days. Occasionally a supplier will request an immediate payment, but we currently do not retain the data if immediate payment is required.
- Dispute resolution process
When the delivery of goods or services is disputed, the budget holder will liaise with the supplier and ensure both parties are clear why payment is being withheld. If the supplier is of the opinion that the goods or services have been delivered in a satisfactory manner, accounts payable would ensure the budget holder is happy to approve the invoice on our invoice management software or obtain sufficient reason for withholding payment.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 31.0 average days to pay25.0% outside terms
- 32.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 30.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 37.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 41.0 average days to pay32.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay23.0% outside terms
- 33.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 27.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
WATERAID
LEI 213800BN92I4RNNDJU62 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- Not supplied
- Initial LEI registration
- 9 November 2017
- LEI last updated
- 12 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 9 November 2018
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 2ND FLOOR, 47-49 DURHAM STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, SE11 5JD, GB
- Headquarters address
- 2ND FLOOR, 47-49 DURHAM STREET, LONDON, GB-LND, SE11 5JD, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
06 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- WATERAID
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026
- Approved
- 8 July 2026
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £100 million to £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 3 August 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation
Worker engagement and working conditions
Workers within your organisation
Social audits
Audit conducted by your staff Announced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Demonstrated progress
Activities for next statement
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
GC Licensed gambling
Gambling Commission candidate account
Candidate association only. The Gambling Commission bulk file has no Companies House number; this link requires one unique exact account-name and postcode match.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
END WATER POVERTY
Owner WaterAid · classes 35,36,41
- Filed / designated
- 10 May 2007
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 May 2027
WaterAid
Owner WaterAid · classes 9,16,21,22,25,28,36,41
- Filed / designated
- 1 December 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 December 2009
WATER AID
Owner WaterAid · classes 9,16,21,22,25,28,36,41
- Filed / designated
- 1 December 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 December 2009
WATER AID
Owner WaterAid · classes 9,21,22,25,28
- Filed / designated
- 1 December 1999
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 December 2009
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 25 October 2016
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08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
WATERAID
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 22 February 1984
- Latest income
- £92,116,000
- Latest expenditure
- £97,018,000
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Other Defined Groups
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
WaterAid is an international not-for-profit, determined to make clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone, everywhere within a generation. Only by tackling these three essentials in ways that last can people change their lives for good.
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09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
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10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
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11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
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12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
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15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
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