INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL STUDENTS

Registered charity 247919 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as I F E S TRUST, I F E S TRUST LIMITED

IFES is a movement of students sharing and living out the good news of Jesus Christ. Locally. Nationally. Globally.IFES works in more than 170 countries to establish and support student-led indigenous Christian movements.Our vision is to see students built into communities of disciples, transformed by the gospel and impacting the university, the church and society for the glory of Christ

Objects

THE OBJECT FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED IS TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY: PROMOTING, SUPPORTING AND MAINTAINING AN INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF NATIONAL CHRISTIAN STUDENT MINISTRIES (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS NATIONAL MOVEMENTS);SEEKING TO AWAKEN AND DEEPEN PERSONAL FAITH IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO FURTHER EVANGELISTIC WORK AMONG STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD; ANDPROVIDING FOR FELLOWSHIP ON A WORLDWIDE AND REGIONAL BASIS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of US$599,169. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were US$0.4 million, which is below the stated policy target range of 10% to 25% of the annual operational budget. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to US$94,319 (£70,000) - US$107,793 (£80,000) (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — IFES · International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tim Adams — General Secretary (source)
• Annette Arulrajah — Associate General Secretary (source)
• David Bahena — Associate General Secretary (source)
• George Ogalo — Chief Operating Officer (source)
• Olena Welch — Head of Global Resource Ministries (source)
• Tim Vickers — Director for Graduate Impact (source)
• Nigel Pollock — Project Director, Breaking New Ground (source)
• Kehinde Ojo — Program Director for Indigenous Support Development (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Azar Ajaj
• Christian Rasmussen
• Eden Hale
• Fatouma Gouda Sare Keita
• Gregory Smith
• Iram Anjum
• Janet Epp Buckingham
• Knarik Saribekyan
• Lazaro Busagala
• MICHEL KENMOGNE
• Mae Patterson
• Patricia Patricio Morillo
• Paul Windsor
• Peter Jacobs
• Ravena Pereira

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

Operates in: Albania · Algeria · Angola · Antigua And Barbuda · Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Barbados · Belarus

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 FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES.

• FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £2.9m
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £2.7m
• EIRIS FOUNDATION income £576k
• GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP ASSOCIATION UK income £44k
• THE FELLOWSHIP OF INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL CHURCHES income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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