INTERNATIONAL POLE AND LINE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1145586 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IPNLF

To help develop sustainable and equitable pole-and-line fisheries and to increase the market share of sustainably and equitably caught pole and line tuna.

Objects

TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY: THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF RESOURCES; THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES (PARTICULARLY COASTAL COMMUNITIES) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION; AND IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY CONSERVING MARINE FISH POPULATIONS AND THE ENVIRONMENT ON WHICH THEY DEPEND AND BY PROMOTING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF FISHERIES, AND ENSURING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF GLOBAL FISH STOCKS AND THE HEALTH OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS GENERALLY.TO ADVANCE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SUBJECTS RELATING TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PROTECTION, ENHANCEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RELATING TO THE COASTAL AND MARINE ENVIRONMENT. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT MEANS DEVELOPMENT WHICH MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Area of benefit: MALDIVES

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds were $360,747 at year-end, which is below the stated reserves policy target of between $370,352 and $740,704. The trustees attribute this shortfall to challenges including member bad debt and falling membership fees due to global instability. Despite this, the independent auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DSA Prospect Audit Limited. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Martin Purves — Managing Director (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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (77% 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

• Dr Cristina Brice Pita
• Dr Yinji Li
• JOHN RICHARD BURTON
• Mohamed Rasheed
• Muhammad Zulficar Mochtar
• Rahim Hoosen
• Susan Imende- Ungadi
• Urs Baumgartner

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

Operates in: Indonesia · Maldives · Netherlands · South Africa

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FISHING INTO THE FUTURE.

• FISHING INTO THE FUTURE income £162k
• OCEAN FAMILY FOUNDATION income £329k
• ICHTHUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £1.5m
• THE ICTHIUS CHARITABLE TRUST income £569k
• THE FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S FISHERIES CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.0m
• SUSTAINABILITY. HEALTH. ENVIRONMENT. DEVELOPMENT. income £2.8m

Side by side with its peers

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