ELRHA

Registered charity 1177110 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. OUR PURPOSE: We work in partnership with a global community of humanitarian actors, researchers and innovators to improve the quality of humanitarian action and deliver better outcomes for people affected by crises.

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £720,560 as of 31 December 2024, with a reserves policy to retain sufficient funds to safeguard operational continuity. While the charity acknowledges longer-term funding uncertainty due to reliance on FCDO support, the trustees confirm adequate resources to continue operating for at least 12 months.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KPMG LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11142219

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Kate Maina-Vorley — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Peter Sargent — Director of Finance and Operations (source)
• Sian White — Director of Programmes (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.

Funders the charity credits

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

• UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) — “Our Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) programme is specifically funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and No…” (source page)
• Norway — “Our Humanitarian Innovation Fund (HIF) programme is specifically funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and No…” (source page)
• Wellcome — “Our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises programme is specifically funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO…” (source page)
• Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) — “Our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises programme is specifically funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO…” (source page)
• National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) — “Our Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises programme is specifically funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• ADEREMI, Obianuju Chioma Carol — director, appointed 01/01/2025on trustee list
• BOB-JONES, Freddy Ayo-Jide — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• CANTEGREIL, Mathieu Guillaume — director, appointed 03/12/2024on trustee list
• KIFF, Genevieve — director, appointed 05/03/2024on trustee list
• O'CALLAGHAN, Sorcha Olivia — director, appointed 05/03/2024on trustee list
• TARIQ, Rhea — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• COCKING, Jane Mary — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• TWINING FOOKS, Karen Evelyn — director, appointed 20/01/2020not on trustee list
• SMITH, Andrew Toby — director, appointed 20/01/2020on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Toby Smith
• Freddy Ayo-Jide Bob-Jones
• Genevieve Kiff
• Jane Mary Cocking · trustee of 3 other charities
• Karen Evelyn Twining Fooks · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mathieu Guillaume Cantegreil
• Obianuju Aderemi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rhea Tariq
• Sorcha Olivia O'Callaghan

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Burma · Burundi · Cameroon · Central African Republic · Colombia · Congo · Denmark · Dominican Republic

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOUNDATION (GHRF).

• GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF FOUNDATION (GHRF) income £342k
• Human Health Education and Research Foundation income £250k
• GLOBAL RAHMAH FOUNDATION income £4.1m
• RAHMA (MERCY) income £4.2m
• EDHI INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION UK income £6.3m
• HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS income £624k

Side by side with its peers

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