CANTERBURY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS WORK TRUST

Registered charity 1020166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The provision of manpower and other resources for the furtherance of Christian education in primary and secondary schools, through presentations at assemblies, RE lessons, mentoring, Christian unions and after-school clubs.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BY THE PROVISION OF A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL WORKER OR WORKERS FOR THE CANTERBURY AREA AND THEREAFTER IN OTHER AREAS IN THE SOOUTH EAST OF ENGLAND

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE CANTERBURY AND SURROUNDING AREA

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

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Registered contact address: Canterbury, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with accumulated funds of £24,042, having used a small amount of surplus to maintain expenditure levels despite income being less than expenditure. The independent examiner's report highlights material concerns regarding discrepancies in expense claims and missing documentation, indicating issues with internal financial controls.

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 3 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 02/11/2026, 2 days after the 31/10/2026 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 20/12/2023, 50 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Waychair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Derek Gordon BINGHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELIZABETH JANE PETTERSEN · trustee of 3 other charities
• PATRICIA WOODS

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CROSS TEACH TRUST.

• THE CROSS TEACH TRUST income £362k
• SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORKER PROJECT income £28k
• DONCASTER SCHOOLS WORKER TRUST income £209k
• CHRISTIAN VALUES IN EDUCATION income £16k
• THE READING SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN WORK TRUST income £74k
• BEDFORD AREA SCHOOLS CHRISTIAN SUPPORT TRUST income £59k

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