THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED

Registered charity 1099889 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

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Latest income

£1.6m

Latest spending

£1.8m

Registered

2003

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £190,870 for the year, resulting in total funds of £61,664. However, the trustees note that following the successful IFC 2025, free unrestricted reserves are currently in excess of £257,000, and they have concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £270,000 and £360,000 (held: £47k)

“The total estimated level of unrestricted reserves should be between £270,000 and £360,000.” — page 17

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: Resource Alliance Foundation

“The Resource Alliance Limited owns 100% of the issued share capital of Resource Alliance USA, a company incorporated in the USA as a 501c3. The Resource Alliance Foundation activities were not material in the financial year.” — page 38

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Willeke van Rijn — CEO (source)
Ruby Chadwick — Director of Programmes (source)
Laura Thisted-Hardwick — Director of Development (source)
Ingrid Srinath — Chair (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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£1.6m

Total spending

£1.8m

Reserves (reported)

£47k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Asha Curran
Astrid von Soosten
Ingrid Srinath
Marcelo Inarra Iraegui
Naila Farouky
Nana Afadzinu
PESH FRAMJEE · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Argentina · China · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia · Hackney · Honduras · India · Lebanon · Netherlands · South Africa · Switzerland · Tanzania

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£1.6m	£1.8m
31/03/2024	£1.7m	£1.4m
31/03/2023	£1.5m	£1.2m
31/03/2022	£463k	£689k
31/03/2021	£332k	£874k

Common questions

Is THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £190,870 for the year, resulting in total funds of £61,664. However, the trustees note that following the successful IFC 2025, free unrestricted reserves are currently in excess of £257,000, and they have concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by HaysMac LLP.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The Global Returns Project Limited	1	£253k
ISEAL ALLIANCE	1	£224k
JAC TRUST	1	£208k
TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	1	£61k
THE SIR JAMES RECKITT CHARITY	1	£29k
TREEBEARD TRUST	1	£25k
HEY SMILE FOUNDATION	1	£15k
THE LANKELLYCHASE FOUNDATION	1	£15k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ALLIANCE PUBLISHING TRUST.

ALLIANCE PUBLISHING TRUST income £750k
RE-ALLIANCE income £166k
ALLIANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION LIMITED income £16k
RESOURCE JUSTICE NETWORK income £2.4m
THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE income £505k
RAINFOREST ALLIANCE LTD income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE RESOURCE ALLIANCE LIMITED	£1.6m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ALLIANCE PUBLISHING TRUST FY2024	£750k	—	—	within	—	no doubt
RE-ALLIANCE FY2025	£166k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
ALLIANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION LIMITED FY2025	£16k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
RESOURCE JUSTICE NETWORK FY2025	£2.4m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
THE HERITAGE ALLIANCE FY2025	£505k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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