INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, U.K

Registered charity 1065972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

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

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.

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.

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 2.7 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 (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ciaran Donnelly
• Cressida Pollock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr TITILOLA BANJOKO · trustee of 2 other charities
• 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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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 RELIEF INTERNATIONAL UK.

• RELIEF INTERNATIONAL UK income £40.8m
• IAC-UK income £804k
• United Kingdom for UNHCR income £25.5m
• INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (UK) income £136.4m
• INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION UK income £3.7m
• CARE INTERNATIONAL UK income £64.1m

Side by side with its peers

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