ECHOES INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1173851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC047797 (OSCR)

To act as a mission service agency & produce a monthly missionary magazine. To achieve this we publish news & information about cross cultural mission activity across the world & distribute unsolicited gifts to mission partners, provide pastoral care to our mission partners & seek to encourage interest in mission within the UK.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £4.5m, with unrestricted reserves of £3.9m exceeding the stated reserves policy target of £2.13m by £1.8m. The charity reported a net income of £265,783 and confirmed it has adequate resources to continue in operation for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Princechair
• Alan Hay Smith
• Andrew Gibson Mr
• David Brown
• Fiona Mary McPhail
• Keith Hunter
• Sharon Rebekah Durrant

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

Operates in: Albania · Argentina · Belgium · Bolivia · Botswana · Brazil · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ecuador · Ethiopia · Faroe Islands · France

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UFM WORLDWIDE.

• UFM WORLDWIDE income £4.8m
• EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (INTERNATIONAL) income £506k
• Grace Communion International income £454k
• FOCUS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £126k
• CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY income £8.3m
• DOMINICAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CIO income £340k

Side by side with its peers

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