The income of poverty charity ActionAid fell by 1 per cent in 2014, while its spending increased around 10 per cent in the same time, according to its latest set of accounts.

ActionAid’s income for the year ending 31 December 2014 was £62.8m, a decrease of some £869,000 from 2013. Despite the fall in income, ActionAid’s spending increased to £63.3m – an increase of £5.8m from 2013.

The accounts show that ActionAid spent £7.5m more on charitable activities in 2014 than it did in 2013, a 4 per cent increase from £48.3m to £55.8m in 12 months.

Most of the increase in spending came in areas hit by humanitarian crises - Palestine, the Philippines and west Africa.

Ten employees received a salary of over £60,000 in 2014, up from five the previous year. Executive director Richard Miller’s £92,655 salary was the highest at the organisation.

Margaret Casely-Hayford, chair of ActionAid’s board of trustees, said that 2014 was a landmark year for the charity, particularly in its response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

“Our response to the Ebola crisis in 2014 was swift and effective. With 18 years’ experience in Liberia and 26 in Sierra Leone, we were already trusted by communities.

“With funds raised in the UK and other federation countries, ActionAid International educated 250,000 people in Ebola prevention, provided food and clothes to 500 quarantined families, education packs to children in their homes and essential supplies to medical centres.”