Independent oversight
A voluntary board of trustees holds the executive team accountable for strategy, safeguarding and the use of funds. Board members receive no payment for their role.
Financial stewardship
Where the money goes, and who checks
Money given to serve people in poverty is held in trust. We would rather be trusted than impressive, which shapes how we report.
Financial figures on this page are placeholders
No income, expenditure, cost ratios, registration numbers, audit details or certifications have been invented for this website. Every figure appears as a marked placeholder until the organisation supplies audited data.
Claiming an unverified financial figure or a certification we do not hold would be a serious misrepresentation, so we have not done it.
- Direct programme work
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- Spent on programmes with and through partners
- Support and governance
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- Audit, safeguarding, monitoring and administration
- Fundraising
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- The cost of raising the next gift
- Total income
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- For the most recent reporting year
Figures to be supplied from the organisation's audited accounts. Nothing on this page has been estimated or invented.
Our commitments
Six things we do with every gift
External audit
Our accounts are prepared and examined in line with the requirements that apply to us. [Add audit arrangements and the name of the auditor once confirmed.]
Designated gifts are honoured
A gift given to a specific ministry area goes there. If circumstances make that impossible we contact the donor rather than quietly reallocating it.
Costs are reported honestly
Running an organisation well costs money — staff, audit, safeguarding, monitoring. We report those costs plainly rather than disguising them as programme spend. [Insert current cost breakdown once published.]
Partner funds are tracked
Funds passed to partner organisations are accounted for against agreed budgets, with receipts, local sign-off and periodic verification visits.
Failures are published
Our reporting includes what did not work. We would rather be trusted than impressive.
On overheads, honestly
Charities are often judged on the proportion of income spent on “programmes” versus “overheads”. It is a measure that sounds rigorous and in practice rewards creative accounting.
Running this organisation properly costs money. Financial audit costs money. Safeguarding training, background checks and a safeguarding lead who reports independently to the board cost money. Returning to communities five years after handover to find out what actually lasted costs money, and produces no new outputs at all.
An organisation claiming that almost none of its income goes on overheads is either misclassifying those costs or not incurring them — and the second is worse than the first. We publish our breakdown plainly rather than reclassifying governance as programme spend.
How designated gifts work
If you give to a specific ministry area, that is where your gift goes. If circumstances ever made that impossible, we would contact you and ask what you would like to do, rather than quietly reallocating it.
Gifts given to “where it is needed most” are allocated by our programme team to the areas our partners have identified as most pressing. In practice this is the most useful way to give, because it lets funds move to genuine priorities rather than to whichever cause is easiest to photograph.
How funds reach partners
Money transferred to partner organisations is accounted for against an agreed budget, with receipts, local sign-off and periodic verification visits by our programme staff.
Where a partner’s systems are not yet strong enough to manage funds at that level, we say so and we help build the capacity rather than routing around them permanently. Strengthening partner financial systems is one of our explicit aims, because it is what allows them to hold funding from other sources too.
Governance and audit
An independent, unpaid board of trustees holds the executive team accountable for the use of funds, with a treasurer providing board-level oversight of financial management, audit and reserves.
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[Add the organisation’s audit arrangements, reserves policy and any external accountability memberships once these are confirmed. Do not publish a certification or membership the organisation does not actually hold.]
If you think something is wrong
Tell us. Supporters can raise a concern through the contact page, and there is a whistleblowing route for staff, volunteers and partners that does not run through line management.
“We want to avoid any criticism of the way we administer this liberal gift. For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of man.”
Questions about how we use funds?
Ask us anything. If we cannot evidence a figure, we will tell you that rather than estimate it.