FIRE AID AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 1171935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

FIRE AID acts as a communications hub between member organisations, and between member organisations and donors, for the procurement of equipment, materials and funds, by promoting the work of member organisations, facilitating partnerships and joint projects where appropriate, and development of best practice guidance for the delivery of emergency services aid.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £210,750 to £222,888, with unrestricted funds falling to £90,362. The charity reports core funding from MSA Safety and secured project-specific funding, with no material uncertainties identified by the independent examiner.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Fire Aid and International Development (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• MSA Safety — “FIRE AID receives core funding alongside new equipment donations from MSA Safety.” (source page)
• Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) — “FIRE AID receives on-going funding from our founding member the Eastern Alliance for Safe and Sustainable Transport (EASST) which supports t…” (source page)
• UK Department for International Development (DFID) — “FIRE AID was established with core funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) in 2014.” (source page)
• Angloco — “Angloco has been a long-term supporter of FIRE AID and has contributed to multiple projects either by way of equipment donation, mechanical …” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 8.2% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Cameron Black
• David O'Neill
• Elodie Le Moigne
• Heather Jones
• Ian Greenman
• Jane Eason
• Kirsten Glen Holmes
• Mehrban Sadiq · trustee of 1 other charity
• Michael Walter Fleckney

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

Operates in: Ghana · Kenya · Morocco · Nepal · Pakistan · Ukraine

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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 PAKAID.

• PAKAID income £4.4m
• THE FIRE SERVICE RESEARCH AND TRAINING TRUST income £223k
• FIRE FIGHTERS CHARITY income £11.2m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• BRIDGE2AID income £333k

Side by side with its peers

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