Sewa International

Analysis

Sewa International is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in April 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 06976220). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Sewa International reported income of £359k and spending of £442k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £109k to £359k (+229%), an average of +35% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 699%. Over the whole period it spent 72% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Sewa International sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Patient Information Forum (£359k), British Friends of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel Hashomer (£359k) and Karuna Action (£359k).