UNITED PURPOSE

Registered charity 272465 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONCERN UNIVERSAL

United Purpose's activities can be broadly summarised as follows:Partnership and local capacity strengthening;Emergency prevention, preparedness and response; Health, including HIV/AIDS prevention and care; Rights and equity; Water and sanitation;Sustainable livelihoods, including food security and micro-enterprise.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income decreased by 23% to £3.8m and expenditure decreased by 60% to £3.4m, resulting in a net income of £0.4m. The charity reports an unrestricted deficit of £1.4m, which is supported by the parent group's commitment to provide funds for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by RBK Audit UK Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dervla Owens · trustee of 2 other charities
• Geoff Meagher · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hadi Husani
• Mary Robinson · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Brazil · Cameroon · Cardiff · Guinea · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Nigeria · The Gambia

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PURPOSE OF LIFE.

• PURPOSE OF LIFE income £2.6m
• INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN RELIEF income £406k
• AWAMU income £194k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.6m
• THE UNITED KINGDOM ISLAMIC MISSION income £14.6m
• SERVE AFGHANISTAN income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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