ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY - UK

Registered charity 1074937 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADRA-UK · also registered in Scotland as SC037726 (OSCR)

ADRA-UK is an independent, humanitarian agency for development and disaster relief. ADRA helps without regard to age, ethnicity, or political or religious association. Objectives: the reduction of poverty; promotion of social justice; working together with local communities who are powerless to improve their lives.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £169,635 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by exceptional legacy donations and EU project settlements. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds amounted to £2,501,339, with cash reserves exceeding £6.5 million, which the trustees believe are sufficient to meet 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 Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sandra Golding — 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~9.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Kirk Thomaschair
• ANDREW BAILDAM FRCS
• DR Helen Rodd
• DR STEPHEN LOGAN
• Emanuel Bran · trustee of 3 other charities
• JENNIFER PHILLIPS
• Snowdon Reid · trustee of 1 other charity
• TRISTAN SIMMONS
• Wederly Aguiar

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

Operates in: Burma · Cambodia · Chad · Eswatini · Ghana · Nepal · Rwanda · Somalia · South Sudan · Sri Lanka · Thailand · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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