INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST

Registered charity 1086597 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IAT

Relief of suffering and hardship and promoting the Christian faith on an international basis

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 · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.2m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
2001
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £802,616 and total expenditure of £613,390 for the period ending 31/02/2021. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £219,694, while the level of reserves was recorded as £132,031. The filing indicates no subsidiaries, no trustee remuneration, and no staff receiving over £60,000.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Governance: Late filing admitted
“This annual return has not been submitted and no Declaration has been made” — page 10
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

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).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.2m
Total spending
£1.1m
Cost of raising funds
£30k
Reserves (reported)
£455k
Employees
26

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (67% 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: 2.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: India · Moldova · Northern Ireland · Philippines · Romania · Scotland · Sierra Leone · Throughout England And Wales · Ukraine

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.2m£1.1m
31/12/2023£1.2m£1.1m
31/12/2022£1.1m£976k
31/12/2021£803k£613k
31/12/2020£838k£751k

Common questions

Is INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported total income of £802,616 and total expenditure of £613,390 for the period ending 31/02/2021. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £219,694, while the level of reserves was recorded as £132,031. The filing indicates no subsidiaries, no trustee remuneration, and no staff receiving over £60,000.

Who funds INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST as a grant recipient include NORMAN WHITELEY TRUST, REDEEMER WORTHING LTD, FREE METHODIST CHURCH, FULWOOD, THE DEO GLORIA TRUST, THE S M B TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUSTFY2024£15k
REDEEMER WORTHING LTDFY2024£13kGrants for UK and overseas mission
FREE METHODIST CHURCH, FULWOODFY2025£12kGrants for UK and overseas mission
REDEEMER WORTHING LTDFY2023£10kGrants for UK and overseas mission
THE DEO GLORIA TRUSTFY2023£5kHelp and Support
THE DEO GLORIA TRUSTFY2022£5kHelp and Support
THE DEO GLORIA TRUSTFY2024£5k
FREE METHODIST CHURCH, FULWOODFY2024£5kGrants for UK and overseas mission
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUSTFY2022£3k
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUSTFY2025£2k
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUSTFY2023£2k
THE S M B TRUSTFY2024£2k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST SIMON AND ST JUDE WITH ALL SOULSFY2025£1kEvangelism and outreach (New Hope Church, Sierra Leone)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST SIMON AND ST JUDE WITH ALL SOULSFY2024£1kEvangelism and outreach (New Hope Church, Sierra Leone)
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, WHITTLE LE WOODSFY2024£200

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 AID INTERNATIONAL UK.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST£1.2m—0unclear—no doubt
AID INTERNATIONAL UK FY2024£260k—0unclear—no doubt
THE IMMIGRANTS' AID TRUST FY2025£106k—0unclear—no doubt
RELEASE INTERNATIONAL FY2025£3.7m£60,000 - £69,9991above—no doubt
RESCUE AID TRUST FY2024£262k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CHARIS TRUST FY2025£591k—0unclear—no doubt

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