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.

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

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.

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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
• Nigel Robert John Younge · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY OF MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA (ALSO KNOWN AS THE WHITE FATHERS).

• THE SOCIETY OF MISSIONARIES OF AFRICA (ALSO KNOWN AS THE WHITE FATHERS) income £1.4m
• THE APOSTOLIC FAITH MISSION INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES UK income £184k
• SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY income £838k
• AFRICA INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL income £3.7m
• WORD INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES UK income £233k
• Rural Missions income £691k

Side by side with its peers

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