IRISH IN BRITAIN

Registered charity 1092268 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FEDERATION OF IRISH SOCIETIES

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and promote charities and purposes for the benefit of the Irish community(Irish by birth or by descent) by providing advice, information, training and support.

Objects

TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITIES AND TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENT APPLICATION OF RESOURCES FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES BY NON-CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS PARTICULARLY SUCH CHARITIES AND PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE IRISH COMMUNITY (THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IRISH BY BIRTH OR BY DESCENT) BY PROVIDING ADVICE, INFORMATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT.TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN PARTICULAR THE IRISH COMMUNITY (THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IRISH BY BIRTH OR DESCENT) IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE PROTECTION OF HEALTH AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Richard Place Dobson Services Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• 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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Catherine Casserley
• Colum Mackey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Colum McGuire
• Eamonn Delaney
• Fionuala Bonnar
• Frances Harkin
• Gerard McHale
• Hilary O'Shaughnessy
• Roisin McEvoy
• Sinead Mac Lua

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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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 LONDON IRISH CENTRE.

• THE LONDON IRISH CENTRE income £4.1m
• IRANIAN ASSOCIATION income £391k
• MONEY ADVICE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICE income £2.0m
• THE DEBRA REISS FOUNDATION income £413k
• RICHARDSON BROTHERS FOUNDATION income £335k
• CASTLEGATE CHURCH income £128k

Side by side with its peers

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