Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

THE CHARITY'S MAIN ACTIVITIES ARE TO CONTINUE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION THROUGH EVANGELISTIC OUTREACH, PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO SALVATION ARMY TERRITORIES, FACILITATING INTERNATIONAL PERSONNEL TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, CRISIS RELIEF, WORKING IN COMMUNITIES TO IMPROVE ACCESS TO QUALITY PRIMARY HEALTH CARE SERVICES AS CLOSE TO THE FAMILY UNIT AND FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 31 March 2024

Total income:
£85,972,000

	Donations and legacies	£65.46m
	Charitable activities	£536.00k
	Other trading activities	£12.79m
	Investments	£6.97m
	Other	£219.00k

Total expenditure:
£64,083,000

	Raising funds	£11.60m
	Charitable activities	£52.48m
	Other	£0

£21,044,000 investments gains (losses)

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	£11.60m
	Charitable expenditure	£52.48m
	Retained for future use	£21.89m

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People

270 Employee(s)

1 Trustee(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

	Number of employees
£60k to £70k	18
£70k to £80k	13
£80k to £90k	8
£90k to £100k	1
£100k to £110k	3
£110k to £120k	1
£120k to £130k	1
£130k to £140k	1
£150k to £200k	1

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

One or more trustees are also directors of the subsidiaries

Trustee payments

One or more trustees receive payments or benefits from the charity for another benefit.

What, who, how, where

Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making

What the charity does:

General Charitable Purposes
Education/training
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Overseas Aid/famine Relief
Religious Activities
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity

Who the charity helps:

Children/young People
Elderly/old People
People With Disabilities
The General Public/mankind

How the charity helps:

Makes Grants To Organisations
Provides Human Resources
Provides Services
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research

Where the charity operates:

Angola
Antigua And Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bermuda
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burma
Burundi
Cambodia
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Costa Rica
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Estonia
Eswatini
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Isle Of Man
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Kenya
Kuwait
Latvia
Lesotho
Liberia
Lithuania

Macau
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mexico
Micronesia
Moldova
Mongolia
Mozambique
Namibia
Nepal
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Northern Ireland
Norway
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Helena
Saint Vincent
Samoa
Scotland
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Kitts And Nevis
St Lucia
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanzania
The Bahamas
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad And Tobago
Turks And Caicos Islands
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States
United States Virgin Islands
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Governance

Registration history:

18 October 1990: Standard registration

Organisation type:

Trust

Other names:

No other names

Company number:

02538134

Gift aid:

Not recognised by HMRC for gift aid

Other regulators:

No information available

Policies:

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
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

Land and property:

This charity owns and/or leases land or property

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

1 Trustee(s)

THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE COMPANY

Trustee

21 September 1990

None on record

THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE COMPANY

Financial history

Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure	31/03/2020	31/03/2021	31/03/2022	31/03/2023	31/03/2024
Total gross income	£53.44m	£56.87m	£49.05m	£76.67m	£85.97m
Total expenditure	£52.97m	£57.66m	£53.78m	£63.08m	£64.08m
Income from government contracts	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income from government grants	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Income - Donations and legacies	£43.02m	£47.98m	£39.11m	£62.99m	£65.46m
Income - Other trading activities	£1.49m	£1.17m	£1.09m	£7.85m	£12.79m
Income - Charitable activities	£769.00k	£355.00k	£432.00k	£494.00k	£536.00k
Income - Endowments	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0
Income - Investment	£8.16m	£7.24m	£7.96m	£5.34m	£6.97m
Income - Other	£0	£122.00k	£453.00k	£0	£219.00k
Income - Legacies	£759.00k	£144.00k	£151.00k	£210.00k	£256.00k
Expenditure - Charitable activities	£46.47m	£51.02m	£47.17m	£54.49m	£52.48m
Expenditure - Raising funds	£6.50m	£6.65m	£6.61m	£8.59m	£11.60m
Expenditure - Governance	£1.86m	£1.35m	£1.55m	£1.87m	£1.82m
Expenditure - Grants institution	£21.78m	£29.24m	£24.21m	£24.91m	£22.67m
Expenditure - Investment management	£852.00k	£901.00k	£1.01m	£917.00k	£964.00k
Expenditure - Other	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0

Assets and liabilities

Definitions for assets and liabilities

Own use assets

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 Investments

Investments 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.

Other assets

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 liability

This is a surplus or deficit in any defined benefit pension scheme operated and represents a potential long-term asset or liability.

Total liabilities

These 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	31/03/2020	31/03/2021	31/03/2022	31/03/2023	31/03/2024
Own use assets	£30.16m	£30.84m	£30.12m	£30.47m	£29.15m
Long-term investments	£244.02m	£255.26m	£292.14m	£288.18m	£315.19m
Other assets	£192.52m	£260.15m	£244.05m	£257.82m	£289.06m
Defined benefit pension scheme asset or liability	-£492.00k	-£114.00k	-£39.00k	£0	£0
Total liabilities	£183.44m	£213.20m	£222.06m	£217.06m	£229.35m

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.

Title	Reporting year	Date received	Received	Download
Annual return	31 March 2024	22 November 2024	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2024	22 November 2024	On time	Download Open in new window
Annual return	31 March 2023	30 January 2024	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2023	26 January 2024	On time	Download Open in new window
Annual return	31 March 2022	30 January 2023	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2022	30 January 2023	On time	Download Open in new window
Annual return	31 March 2021	31 January 2022	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2021	31 January 2022	On time	Download Open in new window
Annual return	31 March 2020	31 January 2021	On time
Accounts and TAR	31 March 2020	31 January 2021	On time	Download Open in new window

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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

SETTLEMENT DATED 21 SEPTEMBER 1990, ORDER OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 6 NOVEMBER 2005.

Charitable objects

TO FURTHER THE WORK OF THE ARMY IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR THE WORK OF THE INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY AND OTHERWISE IN FURTHERANCE OF THE OBJECTS OF THE ARMY AS SET OUT IN SECTION 3 OF THE ACT NAMELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AS PROMULGATED IN THE RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES SET OUT IN SECTION 1 TO THE ACT WHICH ARE PROFESSED BELIEVED AND TAUGHT BY THE ARMY AND PURSUANT THERETO THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS BENEFICIAL TO SOCIETY OR THE COMMUNITY OF MANKIND AS A WHOLE.

Area of benefit

The area the charity can operate in, as set out in its governing document.

NOT DEFINED.

Contact information

Address:: SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS
101 QUEEN VICTORIA STREET
LONDON
EC4V 4EH
Phone:: 02073328116
Email:: IHQ-HeadofFinance@salvationarmy.org
Website:: www.salvationarmy.org Open in new window

THE SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL TRUST