HELP INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 327645 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HELP AFRICA

Furtherance ot the gospel and the relief of human suffering and poverty throughout the world.

Objects

THE PROCLAMATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE, AND THE RELIEF OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND POVERTY CONSEQUENT UPON THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL, LOCAL, NATIONAL OR INTER-NATIONAL DISASTER AND TO PROVIDE EDUCATION AND GENERAL SCHOOLING AND TRAINING IN THE GOSPEL AND MEDICAL AID AND PROVIDE ACCOMMODATION FOR THOSE IN NEED.

Area of benefit: AFRICA AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£29k
Latest spending
£33k
Registered
1988
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £4,376 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets decreasing to £8,448 from £12,824 in the prior year. The trustees consider it prudent that unrestricted reserves need only be sufficient to meet running costs and are confident that future income will enable the charity to meet its foreseeable needs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: sufficient to meet running costs (held: £4k)
“The Trustees have reviewed the charity's needs for reserves in line with guidance issued by the Charity Commission and consider it prudent that unrestricted reserves need only be sufficient to meet running costs.” — page 5
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Brazil · Coventry City · Ghana · India · Philippines · South Africa · Sri Lanka · Zambia · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£29k£33k
31/03/2024£51k£51k
31/03/2023£37k£42k
31/03/2022£44k£45k
31/03/2021£14k£9k

Common questions

Is HELP INTERNATIONAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £4,376 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in total net assets decreasing to £8,448 from £12,824 in the prior year. The trustees consider it prudent that unrestricted reserves need only be sufficient to meet running costs and are confident that future income will enable the charity to meet its foreseeable needs. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds HELP INTERNATIONAL?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HELP INTERNATIONAL as a grant recipient include NORTH DERBYSHIRE NEW LIFE CHURCH.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
NORTH DERBYSHIRE NEW LIFE CHURCHFY2025£150Relief & Development overseas