THE HALO TRUST

Registered charity 1001813 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC037870 (OSCR)

HALO1. Helps to eliminate the threat to lives and livelihoods posed by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War (ERW);2. Designs and delivers physical security & stockpile management (PSSM) of explosive ammunition for the protection of civilians;3. Reduces the potential for armed violence in fragile states;4. Responds rapidly to crises to alleviate suffering and enable humanitarian efforts.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity made an unrestricted surplus of £2.48m for the year, with total unrestricted funds standing at £10.91m. The trustees consider free reserves of £10.06m to be adequate to cover identified risks, including short-term funding gaps and emergency response needs. The auditor confirmed that the going concern assumption is appropriate and no material uncertainties were identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The HALO Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Cowan — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) (source)
• Adam Jasinski — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Rob Thomson — Chief Strategy Officer (source)
• Mick Darby — Chief Finance Officer (source)
• Chris Whatley — Executive Director, HALO USA (source)
• Lydia Davies — Chief of Staff (source)
• Lorraine Hare — Director of Global Philanthropy and Corporate Partnerships (source)
• James Denselow — Director of Strategy (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.

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Robotics & Remote Sensing for HMA & ERW Survey: Southeast Asia Feasibility Study with LMIC Collaborator Engagement —
• A Clear Road Ahead- Developing a Combined Technological and Socio-Economic Approach to Freeing Affected Communities from Anti-Vehicle Landmines —

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: Mr Anthony Mangnall (MP - Member of Parliament) — £5k · 01/04/2022 · El Salvador · ref V0561357
  As part of the Ambassador’s programme to see Halo’s charitable operations overseas.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (5,637 likes) · instagram (1,027 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Finance Officer - UK · Hybrid work in London
• Finance Officer - UK · Hybrid work in London

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lord Jonathan Douglas Evans KCB DLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anthony Patrick Mycroft Beeley
• Bradley Tirpak
• Caroline Philippa Wicks
• Emma Sky OBE
• Faeth Birch
• Farzana Baduel
• John Alexander Deans
• John Raine CMG OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Lieutenant General Sir Barnabas William Benjamin White-Spunner KCB CBE
• Lord Michael Hintze
• Lucia Veronica Halpern · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Angola · Armenia · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Burma · Cambodia · City Of Westminster · Colombia · El Salvador · Georgia · Guatemala · Guinea-bissau

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• THE HALO PROJECT income £453k
• THE MINES ADVISORY GROUP income £99.3m
• THE HUMANITARIAN TRUST income £240k
• HUMANITARIAN AID RELIEF TRUST income £774k
• SIR HALLEY STEWART TRUST income £847k
• HALOW PROJECT income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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