AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY

Registered charity 294230 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q42970 · Wikipedia · also known as AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY LIMITED

promotion of human rights throughout the world, including by: monitoring abuses, assisting the victims of such abuses and eliminating infringements; research into human rights issues and providing technical advice; contributing to the sound administration of human rights law; raising awareness of, and promoting public support for, human rights issues; and international advocacy of human rights.

Objects

TO PROMOTE HUMAN RIGHTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS: MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS; OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE (AND IN PARTICULAR MEDICAL, REHABILITATIONAL OR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE); RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS MATTERS; CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW; COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION; RAISING AWARENESS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES; PROMOTING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS; PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND CORPORATIONS; INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY OF HUMAN RIGHTS; ELIMINATING INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION PROCURING THE ABOLITION OF TORTURE, EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTION AND DISAPPEARANCE.

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: Education/training · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£5.7m
Latest spending
£2.1m
Registered
1986
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity reported a net income of £3,604k for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £3,954k. The Trustees confirmed that the Charity has adequate financial resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £40k (reserves figure: £856k)
“For 2025, the target level of reserves was £40k to cover annual expenditure outside of grantgiving activities and a contingency amount for unforeseen costs required to be met directly by the Charity” — page 8
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

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

Total income
£5.7m
Total spending
£2.1m
Reserves (reported)
£856k
Employees
0

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£5.7m£2.1m
31/12/2024£1.4m£2.1m
31/12/2023£837k£5.8m
31/12/2022£5.9m£2.0m
31/12/2021£1.8m£2.8m

Common questions

Is AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Charity reported a net income of £3,604k for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total net assets of £3,954k. The Trustees confirmed that the Charity has adequate financial resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified regarding its going concern status. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BDO LLP.

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 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK SECTION CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CHARITY£5.7m—0unclear—no doubt
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL UK SECTION CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£22.5m——below—no doubt
ARISE FOUNDATION FY2025£760k——below—no doubt
AMANAT CHARITY TRUST FY2025£71.9m—0unclear—no doubt
Humanity First International FY2024£886k—0unclear—no doubt
MERCY TO HUMANITY FY2025£6.1m—0unclear—no doubt

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