Action Against Hunger UK

Registered charity 1047501 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110909631 · 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

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("OBJECTS") ARE: (1) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DEPRIVATION AND DISTRESS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; AND (2) TO RELIEVE HUNGER, WHETHER CHRONIC OR TEMPORARY, BY WAY OF EMERGENCY INTERVENTION AND/OR ESTABLISHING REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES. NOTHING IN THE OBJECTS SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR PURPOSES THAT ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated total income of £25.9 million and achieved a net income surplus of £0.9 million for the year ended 31 December 2025. However, unrestricted free reserves stood at £0.6 million, which is below the stated policy target of six months of operational expenditure. The trustees have approved a plan to rebuild general reserves to the policy level over the next three financial years.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Haysmac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 23/12/2022, 53 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

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

• 30 years of action: Action Against Hunger UK marks three decades of fighting global malnutrition actionagainsthunger.org.uk · 16/06/2025
• KellyDeli and Action Against Hunger UK raise €1 million and extend their partnership actionagainsthunger.org.uk · 20/01/2025
• Action Against Hunger UK's 18th annual Fine Wine & Art Dinner raises over £300k – plus more event news fundraising.co.uk · 02/12/2024
• Action Against Hunger UK statement on aid budget cuts actionagainsthunger.org.uk · 30/10/2024
• New Fundraising & Comms Director for Action Against Hunger UK, & more mover news fundraising.co.uk · 06/02/2024
• unearthed® raises £1m for Action Against Hunger UK compleatfood.com · 11/10/2022
• Action Against Hunger UK partners with Tenderstem® and Pizza Pilgrims to tackle food poverty in South East London actionagainsthunger.org.uk · 05/08/2022

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03069468
• Trading subsidiary: ACTION AGAINST HUNGER ENTERPRISES LIMITED Companies House 06569439

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jean-Michel Grand — Executive Director (source)
• Will Morgan-Macleod — Director (source)
• Maria Franklin — Director (source)
• Alexandra Rutishauser-Perera — Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• IHG Hotels & Resorts — “IHG Hotels & Resorts, a global hospitality company, is helping support and fund our nutrition programmes.” (source page)

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.

• KHARA, Tanya Ninu — director, appointed 13/04/2026on trustee list
• BEAUFILS, Laure Nicole Stephanie — director, appointed 01/09/2025on trustee list
• VENNER, Annabel Ferrie — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• NINKOVIC, Sylvia Amy — director, appointed 01/07/2024on trustee list
• FERNANDES, Milton Anthony — director, appointed 24/06/2024on trustee list
• HAILESELASSIE, Hewete — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• DHIRI, Sanjay Jean-Noel — director, appointed 21/09/2020on trustee list
• WILSON, Paul — director, appointed 01/02/1999on trustee list
• LOGUE, Mun-Ling — secretary, appointed 14/04/2026
• GRAND, Jean-Michel — secretary, appointed 07/10/2025

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); recorded price paid £110k. 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 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 (61% 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: 15.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annabel Ferrie Venner
• Hewete Haileselassie · trustee of 1 other charity
• Laure Nicole Stephanie Beaufils
• Milton Anthony Fernandes
• PAUL WILSON
• Rema Rajeswaran · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sanjay Jean-Noel Dhiri
• Sylvia Amy Ninkovic
• Tanya Ninu Khara

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

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Known funders

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Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

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 HUNGER PROJECT UK.

• THE HUNGER PROJECT UK income £320k
• ACTION FOR HUMANITY income £25.6m
• FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY UK income £96k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR PARENTERAL AND ENTERAL NUTRITION income £692k
• HOMELESS ACTION income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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