Concordia (UK)

Registered charity 305991 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CONCORDIA, CONCORDIA (UK) LIMITED, CONCORDIA (YOUTH SERVICE VOLUNTEERS) LTD, CONCORDIA INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER PROJECTS

Concordia is committed to national and international volunteering and work placements to promote intercultural understanding and peace. It believes that volunteering changes lives and nurtures world citizens who care about each other and the world. Since 1943 it has supported nearly three-quarters of a million people to undertake such exchanges.

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Latest income

£2.8m

Latest spending

£2.7m

Registered

1964

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that Concordia reported a net surplus of £85,470 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £2,772,622. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,964,233, which exceeds its stated minimum reserves policy target of £1,250,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: £1,250,000 (held: £2.0m)

“The new policy is for £1,250,000 to be the minimum Reserves Policy, building on the base requirement to retain adequate funds to cover a 6-month orderly wind-down.”

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Stuart Piccaver, a director, is a director of J E Piccaver and Co., which was invoiced £63,989 for the supply of seasonal workers.

“Stuart Piccaver is a director of J E Piccaver and Co. who were invoiced £63,989 (2023 — £59,739) during the year for the supply of Concordia seasonal workers.” — page 52

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by TC Group. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Concordia Volunteers (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Jill Cochrane — Chief Executive Officer (Interim) (source)
Karen Goode — Operations Director (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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£2.8m

Total spending

£2.7m

Reserves (reported)

£2.0m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~8.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (99% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Antonia Jane Bond
DUNCAN ROSS JAMES
Gary Thomas
Martin Tudge
Michael James Brand
Mitchell Thompson
Mustafa Saruhan Ozturk

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

Operates in: Argentina · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Belarus · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Botswana · Bulgaria · Cambodia · Canada · China

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£2.8m	£2.7m
31/12/2023	£2.6m	£2.7m
31/12/2022	£2.8m	£2.7m
31/12/2021	£3.2m	£2.8m
31/12/2020	£2.1m	£2.0m

Common questions

Is Concordia (UK) financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that Concordia reported a net surplus of £85,470 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £2,772,622. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £1,964,233, which exceeds its stated minimum reserves policy target of £1,250,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by TC Group.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE JOSEPH ROWNTREE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£39k
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST	1	£22k
THE A S CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£13k
BRISTOL ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY	1	£10k

Charities like this

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

CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £732k
INTER-CULTURAL YOUTH EXCHANGE (ICYE-UK) LTD income £126k
CONCORD CHURCH income £161k
PEACEFUL CHANGE INITIATIVE income £3.0m
COMMUNITY FOR RECONCILIATION income £162k
INTERSERVE INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP income £493k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Concordia (UK)	£2.8m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CONCORDIS INTERNATIONAL TRUST FY2024	£732k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
INTER-CULTURAL YOUTH EXCHANGE (ICYE-UK) LTD FY2025	£126k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CONCORD CHURCH FY2025	£161k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PEACEFUL CHANGE INITIATIVE FY2025	£3.0m	£100,001 - £110,000	—	below	—	noted
COMMUNITY FOR RECONCILIATION FY2025	£162k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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