PRISONERS ABROAD

Registered charity 1093710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We provide advice and support to both Britons in prison abroad and their families in the UK. We send emergency grants to Britons in prison overseas for food, toiletries and basic human necessities. Our resettlement service offers advice and support to British ex-prisoners returning to the UK including emergency grants . We have a range of services for families including national support groups.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £202,080, driven by generous legacies and stable statutory income. Free reserves reached £647,287, placing them within the trustees' approved target range of £600,000 to £650,000. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Prisoners Abroad (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• London Homelessness Foundation — “London Homelessness Foundation supports Prisoners Abroad with a new three-year grant” (source page)

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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 21.2% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/02/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS EDWARD TUCKER PRETTEJOHNchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carole Johnson
• Dame Anne Elizabeth Owers DBE
• Desmond Samuel Skyers
• Dr Stephen Attard
• Julian Nicholas Braithwaite
• Kate Lill
• Mary Ann Clements
• Naetha Uren · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Joseph Hamer Smart
• Phil Maguire OBE

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with OUT THERE SUPPORTING FAMILIES OF PRISONERS LIMITED.

• OUT THERE SUPPORTING FAMILIES OF PRISONERS LIMITED income £256k
• PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE income £592k
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• Migrant Help income £69.8m
• HHUGS - HELPING HOUSEHOLDS UNDER GREAT STRESS income £1.0m
• PRISON ADVICE AND CARE TRUST (PACT) income £9.8m

Side by side with its peers

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