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Action Against Hunger UK

Registered charity 1047501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as A.I.C.F -- GB LIMITED, AAH UK, AAH-UK, ACTION AGAINST HUNGER · also registered in Scotland as SC048317 (OSCR)

To provide increased resources to support projects that address acute malnutrition and respond to humanitarian crises.To increase the impact and quality of responses to acute malnutrition and food crises by improving accountability, coverage and sustainabilityTo influence donors' and practitioners' policies and programmes on the responses to , and prevention of, food crises and malnutrition

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

Latest income
£22.4m
Latest spending
£23.5m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1.1 million for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £0.5 million. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is equivalent to 1.5 months of general operating expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of six months. The trustees have mandated a plan to rebuild reserves to the policy level within the next two to three financial years.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £130,756 — above the median for charities its size (£130k)
“The total emoluments earned and paid to the Executive Director, Jean-Michel Grand, for the year, including pension contributions, was £130,756”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Reserves policy: six months of general operational expenditure (held: £537k)
“The Board of Trustees have reviewed the reserves policy of the Charity and considers it appropriate to seek to maintain unrestricted free reserves equivalent to six months of general operational expenditure.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 18
“Expenses are recharged between the connected charities where staff and other resources are used on projects run by the other charity. This gives rise to the balances at the year-end referred to in Notes 11 and 12.” — page 58
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Action Against Hunger Enterprises Limited
“Action Against Hunger UK has a wholly owned trading subsidiary called Action Against Hunger Enterprises Limited, a private limited company with company number 6569439.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Haysmac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Corporate structure

ACTION AGAINST HUNGER ENTERPRISES LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts
  • Turnover: £123k
  • Profit before tax: £118k
  • Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £22k
  • Amount due from parent undertaking: £62,591
“Qualifying charitable donation to be paid to Action Against Hunger UK (22,360)”

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action Against Hunger UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£22.4m
Total spending
£23.5m
Cost of raising funds
£3.2m
Reserves (reported)
£437k
Employees
168

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 14.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Burkina Faso · Burma · Cameroon · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Iraq · Ivory Coast · Kenya · Liberia

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£22.4m£23.5m
31/12/2023£31.9m£32.4m
31/12/2022£41.1m£39.1m
31/12/2021£2.0m£1.2m
31/12/2020£50.8m£51.3m

Common questions

Is Action Against Hunger UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £1.1 million for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £0.5 million. Per the trustees' report, this level of reserves is equivalent to 1.5 months of general operating expenditure, which is below the stated policy target of six months. The trustees have mandated a plan to rebuild reserves to the policy level within the next two to three financial years. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Haysmac LLP.

What does the highest-paid employee of Action Against Hunger UK earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £130,756 band.

Who funds Action Against Hunger UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Action Against Hunger UK as a grant recipient include DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ALBORADA TRUST, THE INNOCENT FOUNDATION, ELRHA, THE BAND AID CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£503kGeneral charitable funding
THE ALBORADA TRUSTFY2022£435k
THE INNOCENT FOUNDATIONFY2024£300kMali
ELRHAFY2022£290k
THE BAND AID CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£250kTigray emergency
THE INNOCENT FOUNDATIONFY2025£249kFACE-SQLNS, Kenya (Feb 2025-Feb 2027); Mali (Dec 2024 – Apr 2026)
ELRHAFY2021£188kR2HC
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2024£140k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITEDFY2022£120k
ELRHAFY2022£105k
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£100kGeneral charitable funding
ELRHAFY2024£78k
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2025£50k
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£50k
DAVID & RUTH LEWIS FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£50kGeneral charitable funding
Sonu & Eva FoundationFY2021£41k
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2022£40k
THE BLOOM FOUNDATIONFY2023£35k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATIONFY2022£27k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATIONFY2025£25k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATIONFY2021£20kGrant to institution
CHK FoundationFY2024£20k
Sonu & Eva FoundationFY2024£18k
THE BATCHWORTH TRUSTFY2024£15k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATIONFY2023£11k
CHK FoundationFY2023£10k
THE HARAMEAD TRUSTFY2024£10k
Flat Iron TrustFY2024£10k
Flat Iron TrustFY2025£10k
C B AND H H TAYLOR 1984 TRUSTFY2023£10k
THE ROBIN MACLEOD CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2022£8k
THE LEACH FOURTEENTH TRUSTFY2025£6k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2023£5k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITEDFY2024£5k
THE DAUGHTERS OF JESUS CIOFY2024£5kSocial Welfare
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2025£5k
THE S M B TRUSTFY2025£3k
THE LEACH FOURTEENTH TRUSTFY2023£3k
THE CARMELA & RONNIE PIGNATELLI FOUNDATIONFY2023£3k
THE PENNIES FOUNDATIONFY2024£2k
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£2k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£1k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATIONFY2023£1k
THE IAN ASKEW CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£1k
THE BOWER TRUSTFY2025£1k
THE ALLEN OVERY SHEARMAN STERLING FOUNDATIONFY2022£1k
THE JOHN MACLEOD CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2024£500
THE ROBIN MACLEOD CHARITABLE TRUSTFY2023£50

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
Postcode Lottery10/02/2025£1.8mRegular Grant 2025
Postcode Lottery01/12/2023£1.5mRegular Grant 2024
Postcode Lottery28/02/2023£1.1mRegular Grant 2023
Postcode Lottery09/02/2022£1.0mRegular Grant 2022

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
ISSA FOUNDATION1£415k
IRWIN MITCHELL CHARITIES FOUNDATION1£188k
THE BALCOMBE CHARITABLE TRUST1£88k
MEETINGS INDUSTRY MEETING NEEDS1£76k
THE BEATRICE GILMORE CHARITABLE TRUST1£64k
THE FYRISH FOUNDATION1£25k
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT1£23k
FONTHILL FOUNDATION1£18k

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with REDBRIDGE FOODBANK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
Action Against Hunger UK£22.4m£130,756—unclear—no doubt
REDBRIDGE FOODBANK FY2025£724k—0unclear—no doubt
Mikuyu Tanzania FY2025£240k—0unclear10.8%no doubt
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FY2024£406k—0unclear—no doubt
Prept. Foundation FY2025£284k—0unclear—no doubt
FEEDING BRISTOL FY2025£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt

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