ADVOCATES FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 1118565 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Legal expertise on rule of law rendered to developing nations. Brokering requests from NGO's in developing nations for pro bono legal advice with law firms willing to provide it.Business and human rights work in the developing world.Policy and thought leadership work on law and developing nations.Pro bono legal advice rendered in Rwanda.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £83,655 for the year ended 31 August 2024, with total income of £3.113 million. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted general reserves stood at £200,000, which the charity considers to be in line with its policy of holding six months' cover, while total funds carried forward were £882,513.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chariot House Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2023) → 3 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Yasmin Batliwala MBE — Chief Executive (source)
• Tahir Rauf — Chief Operating 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Weil, Gotshal & Manges — “We have been with A4ID since the very beginning and look forward to the next 15 years of working together to help achieve the UN Sustainable…” (source page)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.8 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 (99% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• JANE MCCORMICKchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BIRGIT ISABEL NEU
• JESSICA CATHERINE GLADSTONE
• Michael Adam Rudd · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROGER GEORGE LEESE
• Richard Bamforth
• SUNITA BHAMBRI

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

Operates in: India · Kenya · Nepal · Nigeria · Pakistan · Throughout London · Uganda · United States · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

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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.

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Side by side with its peers

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