ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1049160 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q495040 · Wikipedia

Anti-Slavery International works to eliminate all forms of slavery throughout the world by investigating and exposing current cases of slavery, campaigning for its eradication, supporting the initiatives of local organisations to secure the freedom of those in slavery or vulnerable to it, and pressing for more effective implementation of national and international laws against slavery.

Objects

THE ELIMINATION OF SLAVERY,THE SLAVE TRADE AND ALL FORMS OF UNLAWFUL FORCED LABOUR AND UNLAWFUL DEPRIVATION OF FREEDOM AS FROM TIME TO TIME MENTIONED IN THE SLAVERY CONVENTION OF 1926,THE SUPPLEMENTARY CONVENTION ON THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY,THE SLAVE TRADE AND INSTITUTIONS AND PRACTICES SIMILAR TO SLAVERY OF 1956 AND ANY OTHER INTERNATIONAL TREATIES CONVENTIONS OR CONVENANTS PREPARED AND EXECUTED OR SIGNED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE UNITED NATIONS;AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES;AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS AS SET FORTH IN THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF 1948 AND CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £3.69m due to volatility with major institutional funders, resulting in a net expenditure for the year. The charity's unrestricted reserves dropped to £874,605, which is below the stated policy target of £1.1m, though the trustees believe the charity remains a going concern based on cash flow projections.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent 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
• 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

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

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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).

• Climate Change, Mobility and Modern Slavery - Anti-Slavery International antislavery.org · 31/03/2025
• Modern Slavery Reconsiderations Fact Sheet - Anti-Slavery International antislavery.org · 20/03/2025
• Climate change and modern slavery: the nexus that cannot be ignored - Anti-Slavery International antislavery.org · 08/06/2022
• Big win for Mauritania slavery victims in African Union ruling - Anti-Slavery International antislavery.org · 26/01/2018

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03079904

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Anti Slavery International (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• COLEMAN, Clive Russell — director, appointed 20/07/2026on trustee list
• LANE, Christopher John — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• GEER, David John — director, appointed 07/05/2026on trustee list
• DALTON, Sarah — director, appointed 31/08/2024on trustee list
• LISTER, Judith Anne — director, appointed 26/07/2021on trustee list
• RAWLINGS, Benjamin — director, appointed 15/06/2021on trustee list
• FREEDMAN, Peter Malcolm Lowthian — director, appointed 15/06/2021on trustee list
• SHETH, Sunil Pranlal — director, appointed 18/08/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sunil Pranlal Shethchair
• Benjamin Rawlings
• Christopher J Lane
• Clive Coleman
• David Geer
• Judith Anne Lister
• Peter Malcolm Lowthian Freedman
• Sarah Dalton · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Ghana · Mauritania · Niger · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE.

• THE ANTI-SLAVERY COLLECTIVE income £92k
• SOCIAL VALUE INTERNATIONAL income £611k
• PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL income £1.8m
• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK SECTION CHARITABLE TRUST income £22.5m
• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING INTERNATIONAL income £14.0m

Side by side with its peers

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