Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual
| Name/company name: |
Christian Aid |
| Acronym: |
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| Legal status: |
Registered charity and company limited by guarantee
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| Website address: |
http://www.christianaid.org.uk
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Sections
| Section: |
III - Non-governmental organisations |
| and more precisely: |
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar |
Person with legal responsibility
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Loretta Minghella
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| Position: |
Director |
Permanent person in charge of EU relations
| Surname, Name: |
Ms
Jenny Brown
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| Position: |
Senior EU Relations Adviser |
Contact details:
| Contact details of organisation's head office: |
35 Lower Marsh
London SE5 7HS
UNITED KINGDOM
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| Telephone number: |
(+44) 20 7620 4444 |
| Fax number: |
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| Other contact information: |
For further information on Christian Aid and our work, please see our latest annual report, which can be found at http://www.christianaid.org.uk/annualreport
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Goals / remit
| Goals / remit of the organisation: |
Poverty is an outrage against humanity. It robs people of dignity, freedom and hope, of power over their own lives. Christian Aid has a vision - an end to poverty - and we believe that vision can become a reality.
The essential purpose of Christian Aid is to expose the scandal of poverty, to help in practical ways to root it out from the world and to challenge and change the systems which favour the rich and powerful over the poor and marginalised.
Christian Aid works in some of the world's poorest communities in 48 countries wherever the need is greatest and regardless of religion. It works with more than 500 partner organisations to eradicate poverty and injustice.
By working through, and developing relationships with, local organisations (our partners) Christian Aid's work is rooted in the needs, views, aspirations, priorities and realities of poor and marginalised people. This partnership approach gives us insight into the local issues that perpetuate poverty.
We are constantly working to strengthen our accountability to the poor and marginalised people with whom we work, for example by; ensuring that poor people and communities are involved in identifying what issues need to be addressed, and what needs to change; working to ensure that Christian Aid meets recognised standards in accountability and transparency, such as the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) international standards and the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).
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The organisation's fields of interests are:
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Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register
| Number of persons: |
838
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Complementary information:
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In 2011/12, Christian Aid employed 838 full time equivalent staff
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Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises
Activities
Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:
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The policy issues on which Christian Aid seeks to influence EU institutions are all related to development. They include, in addition to climate change, tax and illicit capital flight; trade; corruption; agriculture and food security; humanitarian policy, conflict and reform of the humanitarian system; and the role of the private sector in development, as well as regional and country-specific priorities relating to the countries and regions where Christian Aid has partners.
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Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;
| Fields declared by the organisation: |
- Development
- Enterprise
- External Relations
- Humanitarian Aid
- Taxation
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Structure
| Total number of members that are natural persons: |
0 |
| Number of member organisations: |
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| Member organisations (Number of members) : |
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| The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries): |
- IRELAND
- SPAIN
- UNITED KINGDOM
- AFGHANISTAN
- ANGOLA
- BANGLADESH
- BOLIVIA
- BRAZIL
- BURKINA FASO
- BURUNDI
- CAMBODIA
- CHINA
- COLOMBIA
- CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- EGYPT
- EL SALVADOR
- ETHIOPIA
- GHANA
- GUATEMALA
- HAITI
- HONDURAS
- INDIA
- IRAQ
- ISRAEL
- JAMAICA
- KENYA
- KYRGYZSTAN
- LEBANON
- MALAWI
- MALI
- MYANMAR
- NICARAGUA
- NIGER
- NIGERIA
- PAKISTAN
- PALESTINIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORY
- PERU
- PHILIPPINES
- RUANDA
- SENEGAL
- SIERRA LEONE
- SOUTH AFRICA
- SOUTH SUDAN
- SRI LANKA
- SUDAN
- TAJIKISTAN
- TANZANIA, UNITED RE UBLIC OF
- THAILAND
- UGANDA
- ZAMBIA
- ZIMBABWE
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Complementary information:
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For further information, please see our Annual Report;
www.christianaid.org.uk/annualreport
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Networking
Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.
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Christian Aid belongs to and supports a wide range of networks and other coalitions in the UK and elsewhere in Europe and globally, many of which are issue-specific and/or ecumenical.
With regard to the question about the number of members which Christian Aid has, we need to point out that Christian Aid is not a membership organisation. We have hundreds of thousands of supporters across the UK and elsewhere, but they are not members. Many, but not all, of them give money, others campaign, others pray or support us in other ways. The question does not allow for that possibility, which is the reason why we put '0' in the relevant box.
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Financial data
| Financial year: |
04/2011
-
03/2012
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Total budget:
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111,782,750
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€
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of which public financing:
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31,207,000
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€
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- from European sources:
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- Procurement:
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€
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- Grants:
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€
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- from national sources:
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€
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- from local/regional sources:
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€
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- UK Department for International Development :
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14,327,000
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€
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- European Commission :
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7,635,000
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€
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- Irish Aid :
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4,400,000
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€
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- USAID :
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159,000
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€
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- Other governments and public authorities :
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4,686,000
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€
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from other sources: |
80,575,750
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€
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- donations:
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€
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- contributions from members:
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€
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- Legacies :
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8,950,000
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€
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- Emergency Appeals :
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10,663,000
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€
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- Christian Aid Week :
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14,042,000
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€
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- Other institutions :
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5,154,000
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€
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- In Their Lifetime :
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1,110,000
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€
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- Denominational Appeals :
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1,743,000
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€
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- Regular Gifts :
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19,649,000
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€
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- Other :
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19,264,750
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€
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Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year:
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100000
€ - 150000
€
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Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:
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For our full audited accounts, please go to: www.christianaid.org.uk/annualreport
Following the guidelines of the Civil Society Contact Group and the Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation in the EU, Christian Aid estimates that it spent no more than £125,000 in the financial year 2011-12 (the most recent year for which figures are available) on activities carried out for the purpose of influencing the policy formulation and decision-making processes of the EU institutions. The bulk of these costs comprise the salary and related costs, together with travel and incidental expenses, of Christian Aid’s Senior EU Relations Adviser. Other colleagues made occasional trips to Brussels for such purposes, but none made more than six in the year on which we report, nor are they likely to do so in the future. Staff in our overseas offices occasionally meet with the relevant EU delegation, including for lobbying purposes. None of our staff who have any current influencing contact with EU institutions has worked for an EU institution within the five years immediately prior to commencing employment with Christian Aid, but in 2008 one colleague, then working for the Irish Ministry of Justice, sat on EC and Council working groups. All are full or part-time employees of Christian Aid. Christian Aid is a member of a number of civil society networks and other coalitions which have as part of their mandate the influencing of the policy formulation and decision-making processes of EU institutions, and in many cases we part fund those networks or aspects of their work. Such membership fees are not included in our estimated figure.
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