PRISONERS ABROAD

Registered charity 1093710 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7245842 · Wikipedia

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.

Objects

1)THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP, POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED OR DETAINED IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD ("PRISONERS"), WHETHER REMANDED IN CUSTODY BY LAWFUL AUTHORITY OR BY SENTENCE OF A COURT OR TRIBUNAL OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THAT ANY PART OF THE IMPRISONMENT OR DETENTION IS SITUATE OR CONSTITUTED OR THE PLACE WHERE ANY PART OF THE IMPRISONMENT OR DETENTION IS SITUATE BEYOND THE JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, SCOTLAND OR NORTHERN IRELAND.2)THE RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP, POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG PRISONERS' DEPENDANTS OR FAMILY MEMBERS.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £63,130 for the year ended 31 March 2026, driven by increased demand and expenditure on charitable activities. Despite this deficit, free reserves increased to £694,079, which the trustees consider to be slightly above their stated target range of £600,000 to £650,000. The trustees maintain that the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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

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.

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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 19.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (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
• 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

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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 PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE.

• PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE income £625k
• BARNET REFUGEE SERVICE income £817k
• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• FAMILY REFUGEE SUPPORT PROJECT income £255k
• FOOD BEHIND BARS income £141k

Side by side with its peers

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