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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of $464k and total unrestricted funds of $3.2 million. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were $0.6 million for the group, which is below the stated policy target range of $733k to $1,833k based on the 2025 budget.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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 $76,380 - $89,110 (FY2023) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £2.6m
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• FRIENDS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £2.9m
• OVERSEAS FELLOWSHIP OF NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS income £390k
• ST IVES FREE CHURCH (UNITED REFORMED) CHARITY income £166k
• FESTIVE income £136k

Side by side with its peers

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