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.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO RELIEVE POVERTY, DISTRESS AND SUFFERING IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD (INCLUDING STARVATION, SICKNESS OR ANY PHYSICAL DISABILITY OR AFFLICTION) PRIMARILY ARISING FROM PUBLIC CALAMITY (INCLUDING FAMINE, EARTHQUAKE, PESTILENCE, WAR OR CIVIL DISTURBANCE) IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF, OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF HUMANITARIAN, MEDICAL, DEVELOPMENTAL, HEALTH, EDUCATIONAL OR SOCIAL PROGRAMMES.

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

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

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 — 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 2 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 THE INSURANCE CHARITIES.

• THE INSURANCE CHARITIES income £866k
• HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £40k
• SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSISTANCE IN DISASTERS income £92k
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £385k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• PARTICIPATE PROJECTS income £627k

Side by side with its peers

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