INTERNATIONAL TEAMS UK TRUST

Registered charity 1089864 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOPE FILLED HORIZONS, ITUK, ONE COLLECTIVE UK

We work with churches to empower them to fulfil the Biblical mandate for global mission. We recruit, train, send and support Christian workers in various world locations. We send short term teams and also individuals on gap placements or career opportunities. We support projects that relieve suffering and meet people at their point of need.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY ENCOURAGING, SUPPORTING AND FACILITATING CHRISTIAN MISSION WORK THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY SUCH MEANS OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL, IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION, CONSIDER APPROPRIATE

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dorset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £87,664, while restricted funds stood at £164,460, resulting in total net assets of £252,123. The charity reported a net outgoing of resources for the year of £15,300. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of approximately three months of predictable outgoings.

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 6 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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)

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 31/03/2021 (received 09/02/2022, 9 days after the 31/01/2022 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — International Teams (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Scott Olsonchair
• David Medlicott
• Judy Luhombo
• Karen Moylan
• Ravindra Nyaupane

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

Operates in: Austria · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Bulgaria · Burundi · Conwy · Greece · India · Indonesia · Kenya · Malawi · Oxfordshire · Spain

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORLD TEAM (UK).

• WORLD TEAM (UK) income £51k
• EQUIPE income £42k
• INTERNATIONAL GOSPEL COMMUNITY income £85k
• INTERNATIONAL AID TRUST income £1.1m
• IMPACT GIVING UK TRUST income £2.5m
• SHARING CHRIST INTERNATIONALLY income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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