SIM INTERNATIONAL (UK)

Registered charity 219763 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AEF, AFRICA EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP, AFRICA EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP (SAGM), AFRICA EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL, INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, SIM · also registered in Scotland as SC040432 (OSCR)

Missionary Society, promoting mission in the UK, sending and receiving short and long term personnel to and from Africa, Asia, South America, Middle East and Europe. Receiving Support funds for the Missionaries and also seeking funding for varied ministries and projects with which they are involved.

Objects

TO DEVELOP AND ENCOURAGE INTEREST IN CHRISTIAN MISSIONS; TO TRAIN AND SEND FORTH MISSIONARIES TO AFRICA AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE COMPANY; TO PREACH THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH THE AIM OF ESTABLISHING CHURCHES WHICH ARE SELF-GOV ERNING, SELF-SUPPORTING AND SELF-PROPAGATING; TO RECEIVE AND ACCOUNT FOR REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND FUNDS HEREAFTER GIVEN FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF THE WORK; TO RECEIVE AND FORWARD FUNDS SO RECEIVED. (SEE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION).

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND FOREIGN

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

Registered contact address: South Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 3.8% to £4,627,691, while total expenditure decreased by 3.1% to £4,614,268, resulting in a net surplus for the year. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,482,049, which the Trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of covering six months of general fund expenditure plus expected deficits. The Trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2024 (received 01/10/2025, 63 days after the 30/07/2025 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 03/11/2023, 96 days after the 30/07/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00611250

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alex Hawke — Director (source)
• Ana Selby — Chair (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.

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.

• ABRAHAM, Sarah — director, appointed 24/04/2026on trustee list
• ANDIRAWES, Peter Samir — director, appointed 06/02/2026on trustee list
• SELBY, Ana — director, appointed 22/04/2022on trustee list
• REID, Carolyn Susan, Dr — director, appointed 21/04/2021on trustee list
• CHANDRAN CHANDRASEKAR, Bennett — director, appointed 26/05/2020not on trustee list
• NEWMAN, Claire Louise — director, appointed 03/03/2018on trustee list
• WALTERS, Timothy John — secretary, appointed 26/02/2024

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ana Selby · trustee of 1 other charity
• Bennett Chandran CHANDRASEKAR
• Claire Newman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Carolyn Susan Reid
• Peter Samir Andirawes
• Sarah Abraham · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Benin · Bolivia · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Ethiopia · France · Ghana · Kenya · Liberia · Madagascar · Malawi · Namibia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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 MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL (UK).

• MEDICAL MISSION INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £935k
• UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £252k
• INTERNATIONAL TEAMS UK TRUST income £665k
• THE UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £14.6m
• SMS FOUNDATION income £229k
• SALEM INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £736k

Side by side with its peers

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