BRITISH OVERSEAS NGOS FOR DEVELOPMENT (BOND)
Registered charity 1068839 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
the advancement of any charitable purpose and in particular for the relief of need anywhere in the world arising out of poverty, sickness, distress, age, infirmity and disablement by promoting the efficiency and effectiveness of voluntary organisations and other institutions in so far as such organisations and institutions are working to advance charitable purposes.
Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £106,769 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £1,695,750. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £870,932 remained above the stated policy target, providing a stable financial position despite the deficit.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Related-party transaction: Sub-grants to related networks
“Bond has made some small sub-grants available to other organisations. These include Scotland’s International Development Alliance, Hub Cymru Africa, CADA Northern Ireland, the Small International Development Charities Network and the South West International Development Network. These range in scale from £2k to £57k per annum.” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Romilly Greenhill — Chief Executive (source)
- Gideon Rabinowitz — Director of Policy and Advocacy (source)
- Mike Wright — Director of Membership and Communications (source)
- Helen Wright — Interim Director of Finance and Planning (source)
- Athina Fokidou — Director of Fundraising (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
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£250k
Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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: 7.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Kirsty Smithchair
- Abu Akeem
- Anushree Chirag Rao
- Catherine Brownlee
- Charlotte Beacon · trustee of 1 other charity
- Graham Gordon · trustee of 1 other charity
- Jasmina Haynes
- Jennifer Lauren Codman
- Kate Newman
- Othman Moqbel
- Rainatou Sow
- Shazia Arshad
- Stella Opoku-Owusu
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales
Income and spending
Common questions
Is BRITISH OVERSEAS NGOS FOR DEVELOPMENT (BOND) financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £106,769 for the year, resulting in total reserves of £1,695,750. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves of £870,932 remained above the stated policy target, providing a stable financial position despite the deficit. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP.
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