THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global network of volunteers, responding to natural disasters, conflicts and individual emergencies. We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help people to recover and move on with their lives.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 December 2023
Total income:
£330,600,000
| Donations and legacies | £188.80m | |
| Charitable activities | £91.90m | |
| Other trading activities | £41.20m | |
| Investments | £4.60m | |
| Other | £4.10m |
Total expenditure:
£322,700,000
| Raising funds | £77.20m | |
| Charitable activities | £245.50m | |
| Other | £0 |
£5,900,000 investments gains (losses)
Total income includes £32,177,596 from 208 government contract(s) and £33,917,367 from 64 government grant(s)
Charitable expenditure
Charitable expenditure with investment gains
Charitable expenditure
Some charities generate all, or a substantial part, of their income from investments which may have been donated to the charity as endowment or set aside by the charity from its own resources in the past. Such investments usually take the form of stocks and shares but may include other assets, such as property, that are capable of generating income and/or capital growth.
In managing their spending and investments charities need to strike a balance between the needs of future and current beneficiaries. They also need to take account of spending commitments that may stretch over a number of future years. To do this, charities will normally adopt an investment strategy designed to generate both income and capital growth. To maximise returns trustees may commit to investment strategies for several years.
Investments can experience large swings in value so trustees may, in a particular year, decide to realise and spend part of their charity’s capital or to invest part of its income.
By clicking the investment gains checkbox the charitable spending bar is adjusted to take account of capital growth as well as income. This shows the balance the charity is striking, between spending on current beneficiaries and retaining resources for future beneficiaries.
| Raising funds and other expenditure | £77.20m | |
| Charitable expenditure | £245.50m | |
| Retained for future use | £7.90m |
People
3548 Employee(s)
13 Trustee(s)
10500 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
| Number of employees | |
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| £60k to £70k | 71 |
| £70k to £80k | 61 |
| £80k to £90k | 20 |
| £90k to £100k | 14 |
| £100k to £110k | 10 |
| £120k to £130k | 1 |
| £130k to £140k | 1 |
| £140k to £150k | 1 |
| £150k to £200k | 4 |
Fundraising
Trading
Trustee payments
What, who, how, where
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Defined Groups
- The General Public/mankind
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Throughout England And Wales
- Afghanistan
- Anguilla
- Bangladesh
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Burkina Faso
- Burma
- Cayman Islands
- Djibouti
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Guinea
- Iraq
- Isle Of Man
- Kenya
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Mali
- Mongolia
- Montserrat
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Northern Ireland
- North Korea
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Saint Helena
- Scotland
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Syria
- Turks And Caicos Islands
- Uganda
- Yemen
- Zimbabwe
Governance
- 21 March 1963: Standard registration
- 23 November 1994: Removed
- BRITISH RED CROSS (Working name)
- Care Quality Commission
- Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
- Complaints handling
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Conflicting interests
- Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Internal risk management policy and procedures
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Social media policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Volunteer management
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
13 Trustee(s)
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| Elizabeth Jane Padmore | Chair | 01 January 2022 |
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| Carl David Cowling | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| MARK PETER BEDDY | Trustee | 01 January 2025 |
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| Howard Ashley Bell | Trustee | 01 January 2023 |
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| Alan House | Trustee | 01 January 2023 |
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| Sir John Eaton Holmes | Trustee | 01 January 2022 |
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| Kirsty Robeson | Trustee | 01 January 2021 |
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| Katie Igras | Trustee | 01 January 2021 |
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| Louise Halpin | Trustee | 01 January 2020 |
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| Yaseer Ahmed | Trustee | 01 January 2019 |
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| Dennis Dunn MBE JP DL | Trustee | 01 January 2018 |
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| Professor Geeta Nargund | Trustee | 01 January 2018 |
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| Lewis Iwu | Trustee | 01 January 2018 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/12/2019 | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | ||
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Total gross income | £244.90m | £305.90m | £226.50m | £439.00m | £330.60m | |
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Total expenditure | £247.10m | £295.30m | £234.70m | £366.70m | £322.70m | |
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Income from government contracts | £32.30m | £36.80m | £37.20m | £37.30m | £32.18m | |
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Income from government grants | £36.40m | £83.60m | £29.25m | £43.95m | £33.92m | |
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Income - Donations and legacies | £114.80m | £147.20m | £111.70m | £286.80m | £188.80m | |
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Income - Other trading activities | £31.30m | £20.50m | £28.50m | £36.30m | £41.20m | |
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Income - Charitable activities | £95.90m | £135.00m | £83.90m | £109.60m | £91.90m | |
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Income - Endowments | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Income - Investment | £200.00k | £100.00k | £0 | £1.10m | £4.60m | |
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Income - Other | £2.70m | £3.10m | £2.40m | £5.20m | £4.10m | |
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Income - Legacies | £33.10m | £31.60m | £33.80m | £37.00m | £41.20m | |
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Expenditure - Charitable activities | £197.50m | £245.90m | £183.50m | £300.10m | £245.50m | |
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Expenditure - Raising funds | £49.60m | £49.40m | £51.20m | £66.60m | £77.20m | |
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Expenditure - Governance | £2.60m | £5.00m | £2.50m | £3.10m | £2.80m | |
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Expenditure - Grants institution | £48.10m | £94.00m | £37.30m | £143.00m | £80.10m | |
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Expenditure - Investment management | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | |
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Expenditure - Other | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 |
Assets and liabilities
Definitions for assets and liabilities
These are assets, other than investments, which are held for more than 12 months and used to run and administer the charity such as buildings, offices, exhibits and fixtures and fittings.
Long term InvestmentsInvestments are assets held by the charity with the sole aim of generating income which will be used for their charitable purposes such as deposit accounts, shares, rental property and unit trusts.
Investment assets are re-valued every year and included in the balance sheet at their current market value.
Long term investments are held for more than 12 months.
These are assets held generally for less than 12 months such as cash and bank balances, debtors, investments to be sold within the coming year and trading stock.
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liabilityThis is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.
Total liabilitiesThese are all the amounts owed by the charity at the balance sheet date to third parties such as bills due but not yet paid, bank overdrafts and loans and mortgages.
| Asset / Liability | 31/12/2019 | 31/12/2020 | 31/12/2021 | 31/12/2022 | 31/12/2023 | ||
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Own use assets | £62.60m | £66.90m | £64.00m | £54.10m | £48.40m | |
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Long-term investments | £62.90m | £19.40m | £23.90m | £60.80m | £81.60m | |
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Other assets | £72.60m | £126.80m | £116.40m | £155.40m | £159.40m | |
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Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability | £10.00m | £11.10m | £15.80m | £9.40m | £1.50m | |
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Total liabilities | £25.60m | £24.80m | £22.00m | £22.80m | £19.50m |
Accounts and annual returns
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 December 2023 | 29 August 2024 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2023 | 29 August 2024 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2022 | 27 July 2023 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2022 | 27 July 2023 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2021 | 25 October 2022 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2021 | 25 October 2022 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2020 | 17 August 2021 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2020 | 17 August 2021 | On Time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 December 2019 | 27 July 2020 | On Time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 December 2019 | 30 September 2020 | On Time | Download Open in new window |