THE LEPROSY MISSION INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1076356 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TLMI

THE WORK OF THE MISSION IS FOCUSED ON ITS GOAL- LEPROSY DEFEATED,LIVES TRANSFORMED. THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED BY WORKING WITH PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY LEPROSY, PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND THOSE EXCLUDED FROM SOCIETY THROUGH:- LEPROSY SERVICES-DIGNITY AND EMPOWERMENT- SOCIAL INTEGRATION- RESEARCH AND LEARNING- RESOURCE MOBILIATION

Objects

IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, TO MINISTER TO AND WORK FOR THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSES:1. FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO LEPROSY,2. FOR THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF ILL HEALTH OR DISABILITY, IN PARTICULAR WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DISADVANTAGED BY LEPROSY AND PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THEM; TO ENABLE THEIR INTEGRATION IN THEIR COMMUNITIES3. TOWARDS THE ERADICATION OF LEPROSY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated loss for the year, with free reserves of £5,856,202, which is above the upper limit of the Board's approved reserve policy range of £3 million to £4 million. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future and identified no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. 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
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: THE LEPROSY MISSION SHOP LIMITED Companies House 03045864 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03591514

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ruth Towell — Partner with us (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• InfoNTD — “The Leprosy Mission is proud to be a funder of infoNTD.” (source page)
• Leprosy Review — “The Leprosy Mission is proud to fund Leprosy Review.” (source page)

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.

• VAN BRAKEL, Willem Herman, Dr — director, appointed 25/09/2025not on trustee list
• FENDICK, Anne Christine — director, appointed 28/03/2025on trustee list
• DAVIDSON, Fiona Anne — director, appointed 18/11/2024on trustee list
• HABETS, Odele Jennifer — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• THAPA, Lok Bahadur — director, appointed 05/10/2022on trustee list
• DELHAAS, Anita Henderina — director, appointed 01/10/2022on trustee list
• BRAIDE, Ekanem Ikpi, Professor — director, appointed 24/09/2021on trustee list
• AYE, Hla Hla — director, appointed 01/11/2019on trustee list
• MARTIN, Colin Leonard, Dr — director, appointed 01/10/2018on trustee list
• MORGAN, Brent John — secretary, appointed 01/09/2016

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £90k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (83% 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: 19.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.7%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANNE CHRISTINE FENDICK
• Anita DELHAAS
• Dr Colin Martin
• FIONA ANNE DAVIDSON
• Gordon Highet Brown
• Hla Hla Caroline Aye
• Professor Ekanem Ikpi Braide
• Rev Lok THAPA
• Rev Odele Jennifer Habets
• Willem Herman van Brakel

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

Operates in: Angola · Bangladesh · Burma · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · East Timor · Ethiopia · India · Mozambique · Nepal · Niger · Nigeria

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with The Leprosy Mission Great Britain.

• The Leprosy Mission Great Britain income £10.5m
• THE REDEEMED EVANGELICAL MISSION income £52k
• THE LIVESEY FOUNDATION income £131k
• TRANSFORMING PLYMOUTH TOGETHER income £88k
• LEEDS CITY MISSION income £59k
• THE MISSION CHURCH income £45k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.