TEARFUND

Registered charity 265464 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1974827 · Wikipedia · also known as Bin Twinning, TEAR FUND, TOILET TWINNING, Twinning Unlimited · also registered in Scotland as SC037624 (OSCR)

TEARFUND IS A CHRISTIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY COMMITTED TO ERADICATING POVERTY. OUR VISION IS TO SEE PEOPLE FREED FROM POVERTY LIVING TRANSFORMED LIVES AND REACHING THEIR GOD-GIVEN POTENTIAL. OUR MISSION IS TO FOLLOW JESUS WHERE THE NEED IS GREATEST RESPONDING TO CRISES AND PARTNERING WITH LOCAL CHURCHES TO BRING RESTORATION TO PEOPLE LIVING IN POVERTY.

Objects

(A) THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE: (1) (A) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AND PREVENT DISEASE AND ILL HEALTH AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD; AND (B) TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND FAITH AND AS TO BOTH THE OBJECTIVES SET OUT IN SUB-PARAGRAPH (A) AND (B) IN THIS SUB-CLAUSE BY WHEREVER POSSIBLE WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OR THROUGH FELLOW CHRISTIANS SUCH OBJECTIVES TO BE PURSUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLES; (I) THE BIBLE IS THE AUTHORITATIVE WORD OF GOD AND IS THE GUIDING RULE OF ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR. (II) WHEREVER POSSIBLE THE SUPERVISION OF ANY PROJECT SUPPORTED BY THE COMPANY WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF CHRISTIANS WHO WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE ETHOS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE COMPANY; AND (III)THE STATEMENT OF FAITH SET OUT AT THE END OF THESE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Richmond upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £29.8m, with unrestricted reserves rising to £13.4m. The trustees report that the general fund balance of £11.8m is above the target operating reserves range of £7.0m to £11.0m. The filing confirms the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with adequate financial resources to continue operating.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe UK LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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 — Tearfund (matched by registered charity number).

UK research funding (UKRI Gateway to Research)

• Seismic Cities —
• Harnessing 'citizen science' to reinforce resilience to environmental disasters:creating an evidence base and community of practice —
• Impact assessment based on self-reported attribution in complex contexts of rural livelihood transformations in Africa. —
• The Listening Zones of NGOs: languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes —
• Improved Community Resilience through Integrated Earthquake Science —
• Mobile Power’s combined ‘battery-as-a-service’ and ‘vehicle-as-a-service’ business model pilot in rural Nigeria —

Electoral Commission register entries

Entries on the Electoral Commission’s public register where this charity (or its company) appears as the source — typically sponsorship of an APPG or an overseas visit provided to an MP, which charities may lawfully do. Shown with the Commission’s own reference; this is a transparency record, not an allegation.

• Visit: The Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £3k · 12/02/2023 · Turkana County, Kenya · ref V0566370
  To see the impact of the recent drought on communities in Turkana county, and the work to provide relief to communities affected.
• Visit: The Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP (MP - Member of Parliament) — £2k · 26/05/2018 · Dodoma, Tanzania · ref V0395477
  To visit Tear Fund partners and projects in and around Dodoma

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• EA to Operations Director, Head of Legal and the Head of Internal Audit — £37,160 per year · Teddington (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 26/08/2026)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/11/2025) — 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 (07/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• AKINYEMI OLUSESAN ODUSOLU
• ANNA LASZLO
• Alfred Weyers Biehler
• Andrew Fraser Mackie
• Bonike Bracewell
• Catherine Alison De Souza
• David Wesson
• Jayakumar Kuruvilla Christian
• Jean Paul Ndagijimana
• Jimmy Maniar Nadapdap
• Tiffany Nichole Green
• Tracy Jane Cotterell

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Bangladesh · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Burma · Burundi · Cambodia · Central African Republic · Chad · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Ethiopia

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TIFERETH BENEVOLENT FUND LIMITED.

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• SEAFORD COMMUNITY TRUST income £121k
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Side by side with its peers

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