UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL SERVICE

Registered charity 1069182 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q132472409 · also known as INTERNATIONAL SERVICE, UNAIS

International Service focus is on developing "youth led change" and challenging social injustice and confronting climate change. We achieve this through strengthening youth leadership, advocating for systemic change, and practical action.

Objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND OTHER SUCH REGIONS AS THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME SHALL DECIDE. (SEE GOVERNING DOCUMENT FOR FURTHER DETAILS)B) EDUCATION CONCERNING THE NATURE, CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF POVERTY, DISTRESS AND WANT OF WELFAREC) THE PROTECTION AND PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTD) THE UNDERTAKING OF RESEARCH INTO ANY ASPECT OF THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY AND ITS WORK AND THE DISSEMINATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF ANY SUCH RESEARCHE) THE PROMOTION OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP THROUGH ADVANCING THE ACTIVE UNDERSTANDING OF LAW, POLITICS, SOCIOLOGY, RELIGION AND MORALS AND ANY OTHER SUBJECTS INSOFAR AS IN ALL CASES THEY ARE LIKELY TO BE CONDUCIVE TO THAT PURPOSE

Area of benefit: AFRICA, LATIN AMERICA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND OTHER SUCH REGIONS

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Leeds, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is closing and redistributing its remaining funds to the University of York St John. Per the trustees' report, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £310,790, which exceeds the pre-determined required level of £80,000. The organization had no paid staff during the year and was run by the Board of Trustees.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• 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
• 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 03467284 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PASSMAN, Naomi Anne — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list
• REDPATH, Nancy — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list
• ROCKLIFFE, Brian Keith — director, appointed 17/03/2017on trustee list
• GREADY, Paul Richard, Professor — director, appointed 26/09/2014on trustee list
• DIGNEN, Robert William — director, appointed 20/12/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Keith Rockliffechair
• NAOMI ANNE PASSMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nancy Redpath
• Professor Paul Richard Gready
• ROBERT DIGNEN

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

Operates in: City Of York · Jordan · Macedonia · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Rwanda

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION.

• LONDON INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION income £102k
• UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION - UK income £480k
• IAC-UK income £804k
• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS income £120k
• INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK income £992k
• INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS HOUSE income £7.5m

Side by side with its peers

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