ADF INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Registered charity 1173195 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ADF INTERNATIONAL (UK) CIO, ADF UK

To advance Christianity for the public benefit both generally and in particular by promoting Christian principles and ethics and by supporting and enabling Christians to live and worship in accordance with Christian principles and ethics.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BOTH GENERALLY AND IN PARTICULAR BY PROMOTING CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS AND BY SUPPORTING AND ENABLING CHRISTIANS TO LIVE AND WORSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND ETHICS.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash reserves increased to £540,871, exceeding the trustees' medium-term target of £250,000 to £500,000. The charity reported a surplus of £63,905 for the year, with total income of £1,468,307 and total expenditure of £1,404,402. The trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HM Chartered Accountants. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kristen Waggoner — CEO, President and Chief Counsel (source)
• Robert Clarke — Director of Advocacy (source)
• Felix Böllmann — Director of European Advocacy (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 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Moore
• Mark Tjernagel
• Nicholas Paul Daley
• Paul Bernard Coleman

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 Anglican International Development Ltd.

• Anglican International Development Ltd income £373k
• DESTINY INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY income £289k
• ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY - UK income £3.4m
• RELEASE INTERNATIONAL income £3.7m
• AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (UNITED KINGDOM) income £13.5m
• HEREFORD BAPTIST CHURCH income £164k

Side by side with its peers

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