INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK

Registered charity 1175526 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EDUCATION - BUILDING AND MAINTAINING SCHOOLS AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING CENTRES. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT - PROVIDING MEDICAL CENTRES, WATER PROJECTS, RELEASING WOMEN AND CHILDREN FROM SLAVERY, AIDS/HIV AWARENESS PROGRAMMES, MICRO CREDIT TRAINING AND LOANS. SUPPORTING CHURCHES - PROVIDING BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSES, THEOLOGICAL TRAINING AND CHURCH PLANTING

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-4.1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY;4.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND4.3. THE PROMOTION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £991,789, a reduction of approximately 5.8% from the previous year, while total expenditure was £977,770. The charity reports free unrestricted reserves of £202,533, which is above its stated policy target of approximately £170,000, and the trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties affecting its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Begbies Chartered Accountants. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 Needs UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Danny Morris — Executive Director (source)
• Ali Mbugua — Chief Operations Officer (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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 11.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY TYRELLchair
• ALASTAIR GORDON MCLUCKIE
• ANDREW JOHN HUBBARD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Elizabeth Fiona King
• EUAN HECTOR MENZIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN STEWART COOPER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Moyosoreoluwa Oyelade · trustee of 1 other charity
• Steve Mann
• Timothy Colpus

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Burkina Faso · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Czech Republic · Dominican Republic · Egypt · Ghana · India · Kenya · Nepal · Philippines · Slovakia

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 NEEDS INTERNATIONAL.

• NEEDS INTERNATIONAL income £251k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £385k
• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• NEW DIMENSIONS income £145k
• PEOPLE'S NEEDS UK income £476k
• AID THE NEEDY income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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