VERITAS COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1009018 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VERITAS COLLEGE LIMITED

The aim of Veritas College is to equip pastors and other leaders in the church in competencies to effectively interpret, apply and communicate Holy Scripture. The College meets the pastors in their own context allowing them to continue supporting their own churches and families and not taking them away for residential training that is more costly and sometimes out of context for the pastors.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £73,647 for the year ended 30 June 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £510,187 to £436,540. Per the trustees' report, the charity remains dependent on donor generosity to fund its training activities, with unrestricted reserves standing at £182,359. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• RENIER OOSTHUIZENchair
• DR BENNIE WOLVAARDT · trustee of 1 other charity
• HEIN DE VILLIERS
• MOIRA WOLVAARDT
• Rev JOHANNES FREDERIK HENDRICKS
• Roule Jones CA

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Angola · Australia · Austria · Belgium · Brazil · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Egypt · Eswatini · Finland · France · Germany

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with VERITAS CATHOLIC EDUCATION, WELFARE AND CULTURE FOUNDATION (COMMONLY KNOWN AS VERITAS FOUNDATION).

• VERITAS CATHOLIC EDUCATION, WELFARE AND CULTURE FOUNDATION (COMMONLY KNOWN AS VERITAS FOUNDATION) income £197k
• THE PONTIFICAL BEDA COLLEGE, ROME TRUST FUND income £159k
• THE RELIGIOUS OF CHRISTIAN INSTRUCTION income £134k
• INTERNATIONAL BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE income £179k
• CLIFF COLLEGE income £2.9m
• RIPON COLLEGE CUDDESDON income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.