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

Objects

1) THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS AND WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPLY OF FINANCIAL MATERIAL AND MEDICAL AID AND BY THE PROVISION OF PERSONNEL TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

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: 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

Registered contact address: Chorley, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Discloses 3 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 03/11/2026, 3 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04167908

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sandy Taylor — Chair of Trustees (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).

• GBA Logistics Ltd — “Thank you to our corporate sponsors GBA Logistics Ltd GBA Logistics are the main sponsors of the building of our New Hope Academy Secondary …” (source page)
• DS Smith Packaging — “DS Smith Packaging have very generously produced and donated 2,500 flatpack shoeboxes from their Burscough site.” (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.

• KELSALL, Stephen Allen — director, appointed 30/04/2026not on trustee list
• DAWE, Jane Kathryn — director, appointed 01/12/2023on trustee list
• HARDMAN, Stephen David — director, appointed 01/02/2022on trustee list
• FISHER, Thomas Leonard — director, appointed 15/09/2021on trustee list
• FOULDS, Rose — director, appointed 02/04/2019on trustee list
• COOK, Paul Mansfield — director, appointed 20/03/2017on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Alexander Robert — director, appointed 16/07/2002on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (69% 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: 68.0% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Taylorchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jane Dawe
• Julie Denise Rowlandson
• Paul Mansfield Cook
• Rose Foulds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen David Hardman
• Thomas Leonard Fisher

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

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Known funders

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

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.

• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• HUMANITARIAN AID RELIEF TRUST income £1.3m
• GLOBAL AID CARE income £396k
• ASSIST TRUST income £1.4m
• HELP INTERNATIONAL income £29k
• THE IMMIGRANTS' AID TRUST income £106k

Side by side with its peers

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