PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1147471 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PI

We promote the human right of privacy throughout the world, specifically:- raise awareness of threats to privacy;- monitor and report on surveillance methods and tactics;- work at national and international levels toward the provision of privacy protections;- monitor measures to protect privacy, and to seek ways through information technology to protect personal information

Causes: Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £302,245 for the year ended 31 January 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £2.34m. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting £840k in unrestricted and undesignated reserves, noting that the current general reserves of £791k are slightly below this target but constitute 5.1 months of operational costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joshua Castellino — Chair (source)
• Joanna Oniszk — Resources 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 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (97% 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

• AMANDA BORTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ahana Datta
• Anna Fielder
• Dr Elena Abrusci
• Joshua Castellino
• Mahdis Keshavarz
• Martin Gerhard Georgi
• Martin Scheinin
• Sara Rebeca Aguilar Fratty
• Vera Franz

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

Operates in: Argentina · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · India · Indonesia · Jordan · Kenya · Lebanon · Mexico · Pakistan · Paraguay

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY income £5.7m
• SURVEILLANCE STUDIES NETWORK income £162k
• Rights and Security International income £439k
• SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.1m
• MEDIA LEGAL DEFENCE INITIATIVE income £3.0m
• FULL FACT income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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