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    Read our 2025 annual report

    Concern's objectives, activities and achievements in 2025 can be found in our new annual report.
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            Concern is committed to best practice in governance and transparency. We are controlled and regulated by our members who elect our Board of Directors.

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            How we are governed

            How we are governed

            Concern is controlled and regulated by its members who elect our Board of Directors.

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            Our Board of Directors

            Our Board of Directors

            Our board is elected by Concern members at each annual general meeting.

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            Dominic Crowley, Concern CEO

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            Our CEO

            Dominic Crowley has over 30 years experience in humanitarian response. He became CEO of Concern in 2024. 

            Our impact in 2025

            15.6 M icon
            15.6 M

            people reached through our emergency response

            2.9 M icon
            2.9 M

            people reached through our health interventions

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            2.7 M

            people reached through our livelihoods programmes

            Aline Joyce Berabose and her mother Marie Ange Berabose at the Resurge Conference, 2018. Photo: Photocall Ireland.

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            • Our accounts are prepared in accordance with the Charities SORP.

            • Our annual report has won Published Accounts Awards 22 times since 1988.

            • We have been awarded 'Triple Lock' membership by Charities Institute Ireland.

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