Geoscience for Global Development

GfGD exists to champion the role of geology in sustainable development, mobilising and reshaping the geology community to help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals (2015/2030). We do this through (i) education and training (e.g., workshops, seminars, university outreach, publications, conferences), (ii) practical development projects (e.g., capacity building, providing technical advice).

In the charity's own words, from the register.

Elsewhere

• Throughout England and Wales
• Guatemala
• Ireland
• Tanzania
• Scotland
• Northern Ireland
• Mexico
• United States

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £2,595 and spent £5,187.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 75%, from £10,522 in the year to 31 December 2021 to £2,595 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 200% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 3 of the 5 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

6 trustees run the charity.

• Dr Kathryn GoodenoughChairAppointed 15 December 2025
• Alessandra GiorzaAppointed 21 September 2026
• Alexander ComerfordAppointed 21 September 2026
• Dr Natasha Joanne DoweyAppointed 21 April 2020
• Dr Wenzhu HouAppointed 21 September 2026
• Marie FlemingAppointed 16 April 2019

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 5 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1165663

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

22 February 2016

Governing document

CIO - Foundation Registered 22 Feb 2016 as amended on 08 Jun 2025

Website

www.gfgd.orgAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Cardiff

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Cardiff Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Cardiff's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Caerdydd Penarth