RETHINKING ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1158972 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCE, POST-CRASH ECONOMICS, REPCE, RETHINKING ECONOMICS

Rethinking Economics is an international network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom.Through a mixture of campaigning, events and engaging projects, Rethinking Economics connects people globally to discuss and enact the change needed for the future of economics, and to propel the vital debate on what economics is today.

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Latest income

£422k

Latest spending

£356k

Registered

2014

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £66,095 for the year, with total income increasing to £422,106 and expenditure decreasing slightly to £356,011. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £147,432, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated reserves policy target of £144,107. The accounts state that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £144,107 (held: £147k)

“The strategic aim is the mean of these two numbers. For the year ended 31 March 2025, the lower limit was £92,402, upper limit £265,150 and strategic aim being £144,107.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Total income

£663k

Total spending

£337k

Cost of raising funds

£10k

Reserves (reported)

£364k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~12.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Alexandra Bush
Bandile Andile Nkululeko Ngidi
Dr Mehroosh Tak
Mads Falkenfleth Jensen
Marie Mathilde Catherine Suberbere
Samia Dumbuya

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£422k	£356k
31/03/2024	£310k	£360k
31/03/2023	£358k	£611k
31/03/2022	£663k	£337k
31/03/2021	£349k	£262k

Common questions

Is RETHINKING ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a surplus of £66,095 for the year, with total income increasing to £422,106 and expenditure decreasing slightly to £356,011. Unrestricted free reserves stood at £147,432, which the trustees consider to be in line with their stated reserves policy target of £144,107. The accounts state that there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds RETHINKING ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name RETHINKING ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL as a grant recipient include FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION, THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST, JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£205k	Grassroots training and practice
FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2025	£150k	Building an influencer community to reclaim the ‘not enough money’ debate
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£110k	Educating, Organising and Agitating for a Better Economics in an Age of Crisis
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£60k	For its university-specific ecological economics and its Doughnut Economics module campaigns.
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£57k	UK Rethinking Economics Development – Core Funding
THE J J CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£55k	to deliver new research into ecological economics in UK university economics courses and lead the UK part of a global student campaign on climate and ecological
JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO	FY2023	£50k
JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO	FY2022	£28k
FRIENDS PROVIDENT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	FY2022	£4k	Inflationary grant increase
JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST CIO	FY2024	£2k

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
AL Philanthropies	2	£1.8m
PRISM THE GIFT FUND	2	£343k
JOHN ELLERMAN FOUNDATION	2	£205k
THE MOHN WESTLAKE FOUNDATION	1	£1.2m
THE CHARLES WOLFSON CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£1.0m
THE SEQUOIA TRUST	1	£500k
HUO FAMILY FOUNDATION (UK) LIMITED	1	£492k
THE NATIONWIDE FOUNDATION	1	£242k

Charities like this

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

RETHINK CHARITY income £2.0m
RETHINK REBUILD SOCIETY income £298k
THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY income £2.4m
People's Economy income £563k
NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION income £5.0m
PRO BONO ECONOMICS income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
RETHINKING ECONOMICS INTERNATIONAL	£422k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
RETHINK CHARITY FY2025	£2.0m	—	0	unclear	—	noted
RETHINK REBUILD SOCIETY FY2025	£298k	—	—	unclear	—	noted
THE ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY FY2024	£2.4m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
People's Economy FY2025	£563k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NEW ECONOMICS FOUNDATION FY2025	£5.0m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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