THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY

Registered charity 220949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH RED CROSS · also registered in Scotland as SC037738 (OSCR)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £17.5 million for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by total charitable expenditure of £238.0 million against total income of £287.1 million. Per the trustees' report, free unrestricted reserves stood at £64.5 million, which is within the stated policy target range of £50 million to £70 million. The trustees confirmed the going concern basis of accounting, citing sufficient cash and resources to operate for the foreseeable future.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The British Red Cross Society (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~2.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Care Quality Commission ratings

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• Community Crisis Support Service: Good (31/01/2020) · CQC record

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (24/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

• Alan House QFSM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carl David Cowling
• Dennis Dunn MBE JP DL
• Gabrielle Inglis
• Helen Frances Bennett
• Howard Ashley Bell
• Katie Igras
• Kirsty Robeson
• Louise Halpin
• MARK PETER BEDDY
• Sir John Eaton Holmes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Yaseer Ahmed

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Anguilla · Bangladesh · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Burkina Faso · Burma · Cayman Islands · Djibouti · Falkland Islands · Gibraltar · Guinea

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• CRISIS UK income £67.2m
• REFUGEASE income £300k
• REDR UK income £2.2m
• SHELTERBOX TRUST income £20.1m
• CRESCENT RELIEF (LONDON) income £227k
• INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE, U.K income £104.1m