Disaster Aid UK & Ireland

Analysis

Disaster Aid UK & Ireland is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Derbyshire. It was registered in April 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes and overseas aid/famine relief, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05003026). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending June 2025, Disaster Aid UK & Ireland reported income of £27k and spending of £42k, spending 158% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2021 to June 2025, income fell from £28k to £27k (-5.9%), an average of -1.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income rose by 111%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Disaster Aid UK & Ireland sits at the 52nd percentile: it is larger than about 52% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 50th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oswestry Borderland Rotary Club Charity (£27k), Kitaid (£27k) and Rotary Club of Bexhill Trust Fund (£26k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.