THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUST

Registered charity 1000566 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE CHARITY'S MAIN ACTIVITIES ARE TO CONTINUE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION THROUGH EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH, PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SALVATION ARMY TERRITORIES, FACILITATING INTERNATIONAL PERSONNEL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, CRISIS RELIEF, WORKING IN COMMUNITIES TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO QUALITY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES AS CLOSE TO THE FAMILY UNIT AND FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £418.10 million, with unrestricted funds of £335.66 million and a General Reserve of £7.75 million, which the Trustee confirms meets the target level for free reserves. Per the trustees' report, the Trust holds a strong balance sheet with £60.79 million in highly liquid current asset investments and cash, providing sufficient resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: RELIANCE BANK LIMITED Companies House 00068835
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02538134

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• General Lyndon Buckingham — General (source)
• Commissioner Edward Hill — Chief of the Staff (source)
• Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham — World President of Women's Ministries (source)
• Commissioner Shelley Hill — World Secretary for Women's Ministries (source)
• Commissioner Debbie Horwood — International Secretary for Programme Resources (source)
• Commissioner Ted Horwood — International Secretary for Programme Resources (source)
• Commissioner Andrew Morgan — International Secretary for Administration and Personnel (source)
• Commissioner Darlene Morgan — International Secretary for Administration and Personnel (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JEPPSSON, Bo Arne Gustav — director, appointed 01/07/2026not on trustee list
• MORGAN, Andrew John — director, appointed 01/06/2026not on trustee list
• VINCENT, Eddie Paul — director, appointed 01/01/2026not on trustee list
• TAMPAI, Widiawati — director, appointed 01/06/2025not on trustee list
• HILDITCH, Judith Anne — director, appointed 01/03/2025not on trustee list
• BICHARD, Rosemary Diana Rachel — director, appointed 01/01/2025not on trustee list
• DASARI, John Kumar — director, appointed 02/04/2024not on trustee list
• NIEMAND, Garth Bradford — director, appointed 03/09/2023not on trustee list
• SKETCHLEY, Timothy John — director, appointed 01/05/2022not on trustee list
• GARDNER, James Charles Exton — director, appointed 01/05/2022not on trustee list
• HORWOOD, Deborah Lynne — director, appointed 01/07/2021not on trustee list
• HILL, Edward Arthur — director, appointed 01/05/2021not on trustee list
• CONRAD, Keith Winston — director, appointed 01/08/2019not on trustee list
• GOODALE, Mark — director, appointed 01/05/2019not on trustee list
• FOALE, Robin Douglas Anthony — director, appointed 01/05/2019not on trustee list
• CARPENTER, Matthew Iain, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/07/2014

Official officers record.

Trustpilot: The Salvation Army scores 2.0/5 from 26 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (67,795 likes) · instagram (13K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.8% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE COMPANY

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Angola · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Australia · Austria · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belgium · Belize · Bermuda · Bolivia · Botswana

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SALVATION ARMY.

• THE SALVATION ARMY income £338.3m
• HOUSE OF PRAISE TRUST income £1.7m
• THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST SALVATION ARK PARISH income £242k
• ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST income £483k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION WITH THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY OF BORDEAUX income £1.5m
• THE SALVATION ARMY RETIRED OFFICERS ALLOWANCE SCHEME income £4.0m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.