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Registered charity · Surrey

AID to the Church in Need (United Kingdom)

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £14m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Albania, Angola, Argentina, Armenia and more
Website
www.acnuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
AID to the Church in Need (United Kingdom)
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£14m£14m
  • 2024£12m£11m
  • 2023£13m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2022£12m£11m
  • 2021£10m£12m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO:(I) ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING THE CHURCH, ESPECIALLY IN COUNTRIES WHERE CHRISTIANS ARE SUFFERING PERSECUTION OR DISCRIMINATION, AND(II) FURTHER THE OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH BY PROVIDING PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND PASTORAL CARE FOR PERSONS IN NEED, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO ARE LIVING IN, OR ARE REFUGEES FROM, SUCH COUNTRIES.

Grants received

7 grants · £103,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

7 trustees on the board

7.3y median 7.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (1)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 7Arts/culture/heritage/science 1Education/training 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 7Professional services 4Retail and trade 3

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£13.5m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months

46 from 33 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1097984
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/04/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/01/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/10/2013 as amended on 24 Apr 2018
Companies House
Company number 04747666 · Active
Contact on the register
02086428668 · acn@acnuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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