FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES

Registered charity 1094095 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL · also registered in Scotland as SC048838 (OSCR)

Friends International Ministries is an evangelical mission agency dedicated to encouraging and equipping UK churches to care for and support international students and to share with them the Christian faith.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £76 for the year ended 31 December 2025, following a decrease in unrestricted general funds. The trustees consider the financial state of affairs to be satisfactory and adequate to fulfill obligations, with no material uncertainties regarding going concern identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alan Tower — National Director (source)
• Geoffrey Spence — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Iván Neira — Regional Development Director (source)
• Stephanie Knell — Regional Development Director (source)
• Pete Edwards — Regional Development Director (source)
• Lynette Teagle — Regional Development Director (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 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 ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 3.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/09/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/04/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• GEOFFREY PETER JOHN SPENCE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian Masson Roberts
• Jane Hutton
• Matthew East

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WORD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES UK.

• WORD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES UK income £233k
• FRIENDS OF CHARITY INTERNATIONAL income £121k
• ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL UK income £283k
• THE APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES UK income £184k
• SERVANTS FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL income £536k
• ACTIVE AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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