DISASTER AID UK & IRELAND

Registered charity 1103165 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE ROTARY EMERGENCY BOX TRUST

Provision on a worldwide basis of humanitarian relief and aid in the form of equipment and materials that provide shelter, warmth and comfort to people displaced by natural or other disaster.

Objects

TO PROVIDE ON A WORLDWIDE BASIS HUMANITARIAN RELIEF AND AID IN THE FORM OF EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS THAT PROVIDE SHELTER, WARMTH AND COMFORT TO PEOPLE DISPLACED BY NATURAL OR OTHER DISASTERS

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: General Charitable Purposes · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated with unrestricted funds of £63,500 at year-end, a decrease from £79,164 the previous year. The trustees report that income from general donors allowed them to finance aid work in Lebanon and Nepal, while specific appeal donations supported named disaster responses. No material uncertainties or going concern issues are disclosed.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr PAMELA RUTH JOYCEchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Eric Russell · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN FORSTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Clive Gardiner · trustee of 1 other charity
• Keith Dobson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter Hazell
• ROBERT STRACHAN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tracey Booth

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

Operates in: Abu Dhabi · Afghanistan · Ajman · Akrotiri · Aland Islands · Albania · Algeria · American Samoa · Andorra · Angola · Anguilla · Antarctica

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 AID INTERNATIONAL UK.

• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• AID THE NEEDY income £104k
• CRISIS AID income £1.2m
• PARTNER AID INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £33k
• EQUIPE income £42k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k

Side by side with its peers

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