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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE :- 3.1. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS DEFINED BY THE STATEMENT OF FAITH APPEARING IN CLAUSE 5.1 HEREOF AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS "THE TRUSTEES") MAY THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS: 3.1.1 EVANGELISING UNREACHED PEOPLE; 3.1.2 ESTABLISHING CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS IN LOCAL FELLOWSHIPS 3.1.3 EDIFYING CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS; 3.1.4 DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP; 3.1.5 ENCOURAGING LOCAL EVANGELISM AND CROSS CULTURAL MISSIONARY OUTREACH BY CHURCHES; 3.1.6 SUCH OTHER MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR DISCRETION ADOPT FROM TIME TO TIME INCLUDING WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE MEANS AND PURPOSES SET OUT IN CLAUSES 3.2 AND 3.3 HEREOF 3.2 TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE SICK OR AGED AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN AFRICA AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE WORLD AND BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS: 3.2.1 RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WHICH SEEK TO RELIEVE HUMAN DISTRESS AND NEED OCCASIONED BY FAMINE AND OTHER NATURAL CAUSES POVERTY OR WAR: 3.2.2 MEDICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES TO ERADICATE OR ALLEVIATE ILLNESS AND DISEASE AMONGST PEOPLE IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES WITH LIMITED ECONOMIC RESOURCES; 3.2.3 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMES TO PROVIDE FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES IMPROVED EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES WHICH WILL ENHANCE THEIR FUTURE OPPORTUNITIES AND DEVELOPMENT 3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA"

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.

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

Registered contact address: Broxtowe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

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 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• 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 SERVICES INTERNATIONAL.

• AFRICA SERVICES INTERNATIONAL income £770k
• ANGLICAN MISSIONERS OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION TRUST income £37k
• AFRICAN MISSION income £34k
• MILITARY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £230k
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k
• AFRICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK AND EIRE) income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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