GLOBAL CARE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1142624 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GLOBAL CARE VOLUNTEERS, Global Care

The relief of those in need, around the world, by reason of poverty, discrimination, maltreatment, youth ill health disability or other disadvantage, especially vulnerable children. We also run charity shops to help fund our work overseas.

Objects

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITIBLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(1) THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE FOLLOWING MEANS:(A) PROMOTING ENCOURAGING AND SUPPORTING VOLUTEERING AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT BY INDIVIDUALS;(B) PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDIVIDUALS TO VOLUNTEER;(C) PROVIDING ASSISTANCE AND TRAINING FOR VOLUNTEERS; AND(D) RAISING AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF POOR, SICK, DISTRESSED, VULNERABLE AND UNDER-EDUCATED PERSONS AND COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS.CHARITIES ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.(2) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF POVERTY, DISCRIMINATION, MALTREATMENT, YOUTH, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, ESPECIALLY VULNERABLE CHILDREN.(3) CARRYING OUT ALL OF THE CHARITY'S ACTIVITES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHRISTIAN ETHOS STATEMENT AND THE VALUES CHARTER OF THE CHARITY.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £36,244 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £722,322 to £686,078. The trustees confirm that free reserves of £136,710 are held, which exceeds their stated policy target of £44,000, and that assets are considered adequate to meet all obligations.

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
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Global Care (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 15.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Helen Joy Tucker
• James Okore Ombudo · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Elizabeth Powell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jayne Elizabeth Edwards
• Jonathan Gregory Kenneth FOSS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathryn Claire McCann · trustee of 2 other charities
• SUSAN CAROL MATEJTSCHUK

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burma · Cambodia · Coventry City · Ethiopia · Guatemala · India · Kenya · Lebanon · Malawi · South Sudan · Sri Lanka

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CARE INTERNATIONAL UK.

• CARE INTERNATIONAL UK income £64.1m
• GLOBAL AID CARE income £396k
• GLOBAL REACH income £712k
• GLOBAL CITY INTERNATIONAL income £58k
• CARE UK Charity income £470k
• GLOBAL CHARITIES income £6.8m

Side by side with its peers

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