INTERNATIONAL LIBERTY ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1160607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

International Liberty Association aims to raise awareness within the British public of the human rights abuses in Iran and the Middle East and at the same time making a real difference in the lives of the victims of such abuses. ILA will also provide facilities and assistance to other groups and organisations involved in promoting human rights in Iran and the Middle East.

Objects

PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME AND ABROAD -TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS DEFINED BY THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) INTERNATIONALLY WITH PARTICULAR FOCUS ON MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES BY SUPPORT FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND RELIGIOUS OR ETHNIC MINORITIES. - INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS, BY CAMPAIGNING INTERNATIONALLY ON BEHALF OF AND PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS WHO ARE IMPRISONED, EXILED OR BELIEVE THEMSELVES TO BE AT RISK OF IMPRISONMENT, DETENTION, TORTURE OR OTHER CRUEL, INHUMANE OR DEGRADING TREATMENT, OR RESTRAINED BY REASON OF THEIR POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER CONSCIENTIOUSLY HELD BELIEFS OR THOSE OF ANY MEMBER OF THEIR FAMILY OR PERSON WITH WHOM THEY MAY BE ASSOCIATED, OR BY REASON OF THEIR SEX, ETHNIC ORIGIN, COLOUR OR LANGUAGE.-TO AID REFUGEES WHO ARE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES, WITH THEIR BASIC NEEDS OF LIVING, MEDICAL TREATMENT AND LEGAL EXPENSES OF RELOCATION IN SAFER COUNTRIES.-RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AND PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, USING ALL POSSIBLE PUBLIC NETWORK AND COMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, EVENT, CONFERENCES AT HOME, EUROPE AND UNITED STATE AND OTHER COUNTRIES TO RAISE AWARENESS REGARDING HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW BY CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY ESPECIALLY IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES. -EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUE IN ORDER TO CONSIDER UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS THE WAY OF LIVING AT PEACE, KEEPING A DISTANCE FROM EXTREMISM BY PROMOTING TOLERANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELIGIOUS HARMONY PARTICULARLY AMONG THE YOUNG GENERATION AND YOUTH TO KEEP DISTANCE FROM THE RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total income reduced to £3,696,171 from £4,658,844 in the previous year, primarily due to the absence of a one-off property donation. Despite this reduction, the Trustees consider the Charity to have remained financially stable, with administrative expenditure representing less than 5% of total expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by GOLDWINS LIMITED. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2025) → no going-concern doubt (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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 — International Liberty Association (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ali Nekooi
• CAROLYN SARA BECKINGHAM
• DAVID CLIFFORD WOOD
• FATEMEH OLIYAEI
• Hoshang Dookani
• James Edward Lloyd Martin
• Rosalind Jane Topping · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM HUGHES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INDEPENDENT LIVING ALTERNATIVES.

• INDEPENDENT LIVING ALTERNATIVES income £1.8m
• RELEASE ERITREA income £407k
• ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL income £3.7m
• INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM income £29k
• ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE income £239.0m
• INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE TRUST income £892k

Side by side with its peers

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