PEOPLE IN NEED (PIN) UK

Registered charity 1181344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PIN, PIN UK

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Objects

THE OBJECTS (“OBJECTS”) OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN ALL CASES, ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD:3.1 THE RELIEF AND ASSISTANCE OF PEOPLE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD WHO ARE THE VICTIMS OF WAR OR NATURAL DISASTER, TROUBLE, OR CATASTROPHE BY SUCH MEANS AS DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES 3.2 THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY; 3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES;3.4 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION:A. FOR THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND B. FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF HUMANITARIAN AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES;3.5 TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS) THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:A. MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;B. OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;C. RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE;D. RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;E. PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS;F. CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW;G. COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;H. RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;I. PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;J. PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS;K. INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS;L. ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS.IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE POWER TO ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CIO CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted reserves stood at £29,814, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £60,000. The charity remains reliant on financial support from its sole member, PIN CZ, to cover core operational costs, a commitment secured under a memorandum of understanding for an indefinite period. The trustees and auditors have confirmed that the accounts are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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

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 — People In Need UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Simon Pánek — Trustee (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr DAVID CHIRICO
• HELEN ANNA CIBINDA NTALE
• JAN MRKVICKA
• John Walker
• Klara Skrivankova
• PETRA VRANOVA
• SIMON PANEK

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

Operates in: Angola · Armenia · Bangladesh · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Cambodia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ecuador · Ethiopia · Georgia · Iraq · Kosovo · Macedonia

Income and spending

Common questions

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 SHINE PINEHURST.

• SHINE PINEHURST income £130k
• THE PAYNE CHARITABLE TRUST income £31k
• PEOPLE MATTER TRUST income £452k
• PENINIM CHARITY TRUST income £319k
• INSPIRE SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY income £52k
• THE PINE FOUNDATION income £72k

Side by side with its peers

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