INTERNATIONAL DISASTER & EMERGENCY AID WITH LONG TERM SUPPORT

Registered charity 1181968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as I.D.E.A.L.S, IDEALS

We channel our resources into the health sector: the provision of primary and secondary health care services in emergencies; the rehabilitation of health infrastructure (both buildings and equipment); the training of health workers (both hospital and community based); public health interventions; and the improvement of rehabilitation services for those with disabilities.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £598,779, comprising £120,278 in unrestricted reserves and £478,501 in restricted funds. The trustees' policy is to keep reserves to a minimum and assign donations to beneficiaries as soon as possible. The charity operates with no paid full-time employees, relying on trustee volunteers and donated professional services.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — IDEALS (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/12/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew George Fergusonchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALAN FREDERICK GRAEME GROOM
• Basil Afif Abdelrahman Budair
• Eamon Paul McCoy
• Nigel James Silman
• Sarah Louise Phillips
• Stefan Andreas Verborg
• Thomas Stephen Potokar
• Timothy Edward Elliott Goodacre · trustee of 3 other charities
• Victoria Rose

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

Operates in: Lebanon · Occupied Palestinian Territories

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SEWA INTERNATIONAL.

• SEWA INTERNATIONAL income £359k
• TIME TO HELP (UK) income £773k
• SERVE AFGHANISTAN income £1.9m
• HUMAN RELIEF MISSION income £1.9m
• ARTICLE 25 income £991k
• AID THE NEEDY income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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