OPERATION AGRI

Registered charity 1189098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raising funds, primarily from British Baptist Churches, for use supporting projects in developing countries designed to enable the poorest of the poor to generate their own income and support.

Objects

THE PREVENTION OR ALLEVIATION OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF AGRICULTURE, LIVELIHOODS, HEALTH AND EDUCATION PROJECTS, FOR THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGION OR BELIEF, ETHNIC AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND, AND BASED ON THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES OF LOVING, CARING AND STANDING WITH THOSE MOST IN NEED.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £162,198, which is significantly above the stated policy target of a minimum £20,000. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, with total income of £212,989 against total expenditure of £238,730. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 — Operation Agri (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Nigel Alfred Joneschair
• Carin Louise Blunn
• James David William Townsend
• Jeremy Paul Clewett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Sheila Jackson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Martin Charles Butterworth · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · India · Malawi · Nepal · Nicaragua · Pakistan · Sierra Leone · Sri Lanka · Tanzania · Uganda · Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Rural Missions.

• Rural Missions income £691k
• GLOBAL AID CARE income £396k
• OPERATION REACH income £61k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k
• ANGLICAN MISSION IN ENGLAND income £234k
• 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.