INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF

Registered charity 1162572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES2. CARING FOR ORPHANS AND CHILDREN IN NEED3. SUPPORTING EDUCATION4. PROVIDING ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE AND WATER5. PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOOD

Objects

THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE IN PARTICULAR BY THE SUPPLY OF FOOD/CLOTHING MEDICAL AID TO SUCH PERSONSTHE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL NEED AND SUFFERING AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL OR OTHER KINDS OF DISASTER IN THE FORM OF MONEY FOR PERSONS, BODIES, ORGANISATIONS AND/ OR COUNTRIES AFFECTED INCLUDING THE PROVISIONS OF MEDICAL, FOOD, CLOTHES AID. TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING OF THE POOR AND NEEDY. TO PRESERVE LIFE AND PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE POOR AND NEEDY INCLUDING BY PROTECTING THE POOR AND NEEDY WHO HAVE SUFFERED HARM OR WHOSE LIVES ARE AT RISK. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR AND NEEDY

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£385k
Latest spending
£472k
Registered
2015
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £86,861 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £161,202 to £74,341. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting six months of core operating expenditure, with a specific target of £50,000, which the current unrestricted reserves of £74,341 exceed. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than an audit, with the examiner confirming no material matters required attention.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of core operating expenditure (reserves figure: £74k)
“IHR's policy is to seek to maintain unrestricted reserves equivalent to approximately six months of core operating expenditure.” — page 31
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 5

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 11

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 15

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 07/01/2023, 68 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Total income
£754k
Total spending
£705k
Cost of raising funds
£1k
Reserves (reported)
£60k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bradford City · India · Lebanon · Nepal · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Pakistan · Turkey · Uganda · Yemen

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£385k£472k
31/12/2024£406k£412k
31/12/2023£754k£705k
31/12/2022£455k£374k
31/12/2021£337k£342k

Common questions

Is INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a net expenditure of £86,861 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £161,202 to £74,341. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting six months of core operating expenditure, with a specific target of £50,000, which the current unrestricted reserves of £74,341 exceed. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than an audit, with the examiner confirming no material matters required attention. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF?

Funders whose own accounts filings name INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF as a grant recipient include ISSA FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
ISSA FOUNDATIONFY2025£1.6m
ISSA FOUNDATIONFY2023£310k
ISSA FOUNDATIONFY2022£96k
ISSA FOUNDATIONFY2024£9k

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF£385k——unclear—no doubt
HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£40k—0unclear—no doubt
ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE FY2025£239.0m——unclear—no doubt
GLOBAL HUMAN RELIEF LTD FY2025£47k—0unclear—no doubt
INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK FY2025£992k—0above11.5%no doubt
PEACE AND RELIEF INTERNATIONAL FY2025£308k—0unclear—no doubt

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