INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, U.K

Registered charity 1065972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q110909614 · also known as INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, IRC, IRC EUROPE, IRC-UK

The International Rescue Committee UK is an independent British charity, established in 1997 as part of the International Rescue Committee network. The IRC provides emergency relief, protection of human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, resettlement assistance & advocacy to those uprooted or affected by violent conflict, oppression and natural disaster in countries around the world.

Objects

2. OBJECTS2.1 The objects for which the Charity is established are:2.1.1 to relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world, in particular, but not exclusively, for the benefit of refugees and victims of oppression, violent conflict, natural or other kinds of disaster and displacement (the “Beneficiaries”);2.1.2 to carry out programmes in global emergency relief so as to assist the Beneficiaries;2.1.3 to advance the education, development and training of the Beneficiaries;2.1.4 to advance and protect the health of the Beneficiaries;and to fulfil such objects without regard to the race, nationality or religion of the Beneficiaries.2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 11% to £104.1m, driven by reductions in charitable activity income and donations. The charity ended the year with a net unrestricted surplus of £0.0m, maintaining free reserves of £5.7m, which equates to approximately four months of unrestricted operating expenditure. The trustees confirm that the going concern assumption is appropriate and that the charity has sufficient resources to meet its liabilities as they fall due.

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 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03458056

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Miliband — CEO (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.

• KOLB, Henriette — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• ROUND, Laura Fleur — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• POLLITT, Nicola Kathryn — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• MCCARTHY, Joseph Michael — director, appointed 29/10/2024on trustee list
• AU, Natalie Lynn — director, appointed 11/10/2023on trustee list
• HYMAN, Martin Barry — director, appointed 15/05/2023on trustee list
• SERRANO, Noelia — director, appointed 07/07/2022on trustee list
• AL ABDALLAH, Najwa — director, appointed 08/07/2021not on trustee list
• BANJOKO, Titilola, Dr — director, appointed 20/10/2020on trustee list
• POLLOCK, Cressida — director, appointed 01/03/2019on trustee list
• DONNELLY, Ciaran — director, appointed 26/10/2016on trustee list
• FRENCH, Rachel — secretary, appointed 30/10/2023

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (48,089 likes) · instagram (43K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (93% 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: 5.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ciaran Donnelly
• Constance Barker Early
• Cressida Pollock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr TITILOLA BANJOKO · trustee of 2 other charities
• Edward Raymond Bowles
• Henriette Kolb
• Joseph Michael McCarthy
• Laura Fleur Round
• Martin Hyman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Najwa Al Abdallah
• Natalie Lynn Au
• Nicola Kathryn Pollitt
• Noelia Serrano

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Burkina Faso · Burma · Burundi · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Chad · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Iraq

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

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Funders of similar charities

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RELIEF INTERNATIONAL UK.

• RELIEF INTERNATIONAL UK income £43.3m
• THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY income £293.5m
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• CRESCENT AID UK income £38k
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Side by side with its peers

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