TOOLS WITH A MISSION

Registered charity 1104903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TWAM · filing overdue (register status)

We provide humanitarian aid to the poor and disadvantaged potentially worldwide but currently to various sub-Saharan African countries. Although we help anyone in need irrespective of tribe, ethnic background, gender or religion, our objective is to bring glory to the name of Jesus Christ and to give practical effect to the Christian principles which underpin our ministry.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY PROVIDING TOOLS, EQUIPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY WORLDWIDE. TO ENABLE PEOPLE TO IMPROVE THEIR CAPABILITY TO COUNTER FAMINE, DISEASE, DROUGHT AND HOMELESSNESS, PARTICULARLY AMONGST THE POOR OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Ipswich, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £122,015 for the period ended 31 December 2025, primarily driven by a legacy of £477,519. The trustees have designated a reserve of £300,000, which exceeds their stated policy target of six months' core operating expenditure. However, the audit findings note that excluding legacy income, the charity would have reported a significant operating deficit, indicating reliance on voluntary donations and legacies for sustainability.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services Limited. 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Tools with a Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Noble — Chief Executive Officer (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)

2 registered titles 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/04/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Heather Potts Mrs
• Keith John Holburn · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Elizabeth MacLellan
• Pauline Anne Parker
• Roger Beaumont

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

Operates in: Burundi · Malawi · Rwanda · Tanzania · Throughout England · Uganda · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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 INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £2.7m
• TOOLS FOR SELF RELIANCE income £754k
• HANDS AT WORK IN AFRICA UK income £364k
• THROUGH THE ROOF CHARITABLE TRUST income £403k
• HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS income £624k
• AL-SADAQAH income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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