CHRISTIANS IN SCHOOLS TRUST

Registered charity 1019848 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CIST is active within Primary and Secondary schools in the Stockport area by providing a service that includes R.E. lessons, assemblies and projects to support the school curriculum in the teaching of Christianity. CIST also aims to partner with Christian Communities in providing opportunities for children and young people to explore the Christian faith

Objects

2. The purpose of the Trust shall be the advancement of the Christian religion as follows:a) The furtherance of the Christian Gospel, and the teaching of the Christian Faith in schools throughout the Stockport area and elsewhere.b) The organisation, sponsorship and promotion of Inter-denominational Christian work throughout the Stockport area and elsewhere the object of which shall be to present to children and young people the Christian Faith by all possible means.

Area of benefit: STOCKPORT AREA AND ELSEWHERE

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

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

Registered contact address: Stockport, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure of £59,200 exceeded total income of £55,304, resulting in a net deficit for the year. However, unrestricted reserves stood at £435,842 at the end of the period, which the trustees describe as a 'very healthy' financial situation sufficient to cover future shortfalls.

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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/12/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• STEPHEN INNESchair
• CHRISTINE JOYCE HALL
• Debbie Allen
• Gillian Audrey Golding · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANET ELIZABETH FORD
• Philip Pasteiner
• Viv Allen

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

Operates in: Manchester City · Stockport

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

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• Gillian Audrey Golding — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST GEORGE WITH ST MARTIN, POYNTON, CHESTER

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BEDFORD AREA SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN SUPPORT TRUST.

• BEDFORD AREA SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN SUPPORT TRUST income £59k
• CANTERBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS WORK TRUST income £25k
• Faith in Schools income £75k
• CHRISTIAN EDUCATION PROJECT income £80k
• SUTTON SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST income £87k
• WORCESTER CHRISTIAN EDUCATION TRUST income £925k

Side by side with its peers

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