AFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1096364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AIM INTERNATIONAL · also registered in Scotland as SC037594 (OSCR)

Provides personnel, prayer and resources for mission activity amongst Africans in Africa and in Europe.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £2,208,970, which comfortably exceeds the stated reserves policy minimum of £102,222. However, the Trustees note that the charity reported an unrestricted funds deficit before legacy income of £406,651, highlighting a need for long-term financial sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04598557

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Africa Inland Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HALESTRAP, Peter David, Dr — director, appointed 09/07/2026not on trustee list
• AKINWALE, Akinkunmi — director, appointed 02/04/2025on trustee list
• ODEH, Akatu, Reverend — director, appointed 27/03/2025on trustee list
• FRENCH, Simon — director, appointed 24/03/2023on trustee list
• LANCASTER, Ruth — director, appointed 12/01/2022on trustee list
• BROWN, Rosemary Joan — director, appointed 28/10/2020on trustee list
• ALLDRIDGE, Gay-Lynn Merle — director, appointed 14/09/2020on trustee list
• SWANSON, Anthony Paul — secretary, appointed 22/04/2026

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Akinkunmi Akinwale
• Dr Peter Halestrap
• Gay-Lynn Merle Alldridge
• Rev Akatu Odeh
• Rosemary Joan Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruth Lancaster
• Simon French

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

Operates in: Australia · Canada · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · France · Germany · Hong Kong · Ireland · Kenya · Lesotho · Madagascar · Mayotte

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 AFRICA RESEARCH INSTITUTE.

• AFRICA RESEARCH INSTITUTE income £100k
• INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE income £182k
• THE SOCIETY OF MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA (ALSO KNOWN AS THE WHITE FATHERS) income £1.4m
• AFRICA MISSIONS ENGLD income £123k
• AFRICAN ENTERPRISE INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m
• SIM INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £4.6m

Side by side with its peers

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