AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (UNITED KINGDOM)

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Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Moore Kingston Smith LLP

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“The trustees have considered possible events or conditions that might cast significant doubt on the ability of the charitable group to continue as a going concern. The trustees have made this assessment for a period of at least one year from the date of approval of the financial statements. In particular the trustees have considered the charity's forecasts and projections on the viability of the charity. After making enquiries the trustees have concluded that there is a reasonable expectation that the charity group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. The charity therefore continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing its financial statements.”

Group structure

1. AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED (UNITED KINGDOM) · parent
   1. ACN Trading Limited 100% · UK · offers Cards, Books, Music, Gifts and bespoke products related to the work of the charity

Significant events

• “ACN (UK) provided £7,958,349... in aid through 283 project payments in 66 countries.”
• “The charity's income in 2024 was £12,249,124, down 5.5% on 2023.”
• “Cash received at £11,132,054 was similar to 2023 (1.2% up on £10,993,733).”
• “In 2024, 80.9% (2023 84.8%) of charity cash available was spent on the charitable purpose...”
• “By the end of 2024, free reserves of ACN (UK) totalled £608,269 (£5,092,499 with the addition of legacies receivable).”
• “Online activity increased, with more than half of all donations coming in through our website.”
• “ACN Trading Ltd generated £279,000 in donations alongside sales, a 14.1% increase on 2023; gross profit and gross turnover were also up on last year.”
• “October 2024 saw the launch of our biennial report on the persecuted Church, Persecuted and Forgotten?, as well as an Open Letter to the Foreign Secretary demanding religious minorities be added as a protected group for UK Overseas Development Aid. Just under 12,000 signatures had been collected by the end of 2024.”
• “#RedWednesday 2024 (20 November) exceeded expectations, raising just under £550k through our Matched Giving campaign and with mentions at PMQs in the House of Commons on the day itself resulting in the appointment of a new Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB).”
• “In March 2024 the charity website suffered a minor cyber breach. This was resolved quickly with minimal loss of income; all affected benefactors were notified immediately, appropriate reports were filed and enhanced security measures were immediately implemented.”
• “The average employee FTE for 2024 was 41.0, a slight increase compared with 39.4 in 2023, due to internal increasing of hours by part-time staff, as the headcount remained stable with 4 starters and 4 leavers.”
• “In 2024 there were 116 volunteers, down on 164 in 2023, following a process to confirm truly active volunteers.”
• “The number of online donations in 2024 exceeded the number of offline donations (online/offline for 2023: 11,729/14,897; for 2024: 13,367/11,870).”
• “2024 saw a dramatic increase in digital marketing initiatives across ACN (UK).”
• “In January 2024 ACN (UK) organised a Parliamentary event on the August 2023 attack on Christians in Jaranwala, Pakistan.”
• “ACN (UK) gave evidence in Spring 2024 at a UK parliamentary inquiry into slavery in Pakistan brick-kilns, many of them staffed by Christians.”
• “In October ACN (UK) launched the biennial 'Persecuted and Forgotten? A Report on Christians oppressed for their Faith' in the House of Lords.”
• “On 17th December 2024, ACN (UK) and Farm Street Church co-hosted an Advent Service with HM The King to mark the 10th anniversary of the Daesh (ISIS) invasion of Nineveh, Iraq.”
• “ACN's work in Liberia provided a year-long focus for the charity... benefactors of ACN (UK) provided £509,221 to fund 23 pastoral projects in Liberia.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

2

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

0

last 12 months

Officers resigned

0

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +9.8%

  £323,298 → £354,942

• Cash

  +16.9%

  £584,016 → £682,856

• Net assets

  +16.8%

  £5,382,847 → £6,287,208

• Employees

  -2.4%

  42 → 41

• Profit before tax

  +0.4%

  £901,082 → £904,361

• Wages

  +12.5%

  £1,581,970 → £1,780,154

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers