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THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD

Registered charity 1043985 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCKG, UCKG HELPCENTRE, UNIVERSAL, UNIVERSAL CHURCH

The UCKG HelpCentre is established to advance the Christain faith by words and deeds. Our full-time HelpCentres are open 7 days a week, offering free services which include: one to one spiritual advice sessions; 24 hour helpline; life coaching and relationship guidance; personal attention to crisis in homes, hospitals or prisons and a skills & learning Training Centre.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£15.4m
Latest spending
£14.9m
Registered
1995
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the group held total unrestricted net assets of £65,341,826, with free reserves excluding property and loans standing at £13,644,049. The trustees report that these reserves exceed their stated policy target of £4,400,000, which represents three to four months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Largest income source: Donations from church services (86% of income)
“Unrestricted donations from church services represent approximately 75% (2024: 77%) of the total income.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: The spouses of two trustees received £62,803 for administrative and pastoral duties. No trustee received remuneration for their services as trustees or as Deacon/employee.
“No trustee, received remuneration for their services as Deacon/employee (2024: £nil). No trustee received remuneration for their services as trustees (2024: none). The spouses of two trustees, Audrey Tung de Medeiros and Christoulla Odysseos Boodram (2024: two trustees) received £62,803 for administrative and pastoral duties (2024: £59,891).” — page 62
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: The charity purchased advertising services of £252,676 from its trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited and recharged £208,188 in relation to rent, staffing and other costs.
“During the year the charity has purchased advertising services of £252,676 (2024: £252,700) from its trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited and has recharged £208,188 in relation to rent, staffing and other costs (2024: £179,454). Liberty Radio didn’t make a distribution to the charity during either year.” — page 71
“Donations to sister churches during the year amounted to £942,051 (2024: £518,154): £61,274 to Cyprus (2024: £82,328), £60,600 to Dubai (2024: £60,600), £149,936 to East Timor (2024: £118,695), £77,481 to Greece (2024: £87,603), £16,450 to India (2024: £16,250), £128,316 to Israel (2024: £39,418), £50,720 to Malta (2024: £50,886), £91 of food items to Portugal (2024: £nil) £326,267 to South Korea (2024: £48,000), £1,123 to Sri Lanka (2024: £14,160), £68,593 to Ukraine (2024: £nil) and £1,200 of books sent to Albania, Croatia and Georgia (2024: £214 of books to Lebanon and Poland).” — page 71
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Donations to sister churches (related parties) amounted to £942,051.
“During the year the charity has purchased advertising services of £252,676 (2024: £252,700) from its trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited and has recharged £208,188 in relation to rent, staffing and other costs (2024: £179,454). Liberty Radio didn’t make a distribution to the charity during either year.” — page 71
“Donations to sister churches during the year amounted to £942,051 (2024: £518,154): £61,274 to Cyprus (2024: £82,328), £60,600 to Dubai (2024: £60,600), £149,936 to East Timor (2024: £118,695), £77,481 to Greece (2024: £87,603), £16,450 to India (2024: £16,250), £128,316 to Israel (2024: £39,418), £50,720 to Malta (2024: £50,886), £91 of food items to Portugal (2024: £nil) £326,267 to South Korea (2024: £48,000), £1,123 to Sri Lanka (2024: £14,160), £68,593 to Ukraine (2024: £nil) and £1,200 of books sent to Albania, Croatia and Georgia (2024: £214 of books to Lebanon and Poland).” — page 71
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Repayments of loans to sister church in Ireland were £171,799.
“During the year the charity has purchased advertising services of £252,676 (2024: £252,700) from its trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited and has recharged £208,188 in relation to rent, staffing and other costs (2024: £179,454). Liberty Radio didn’t make a distribution to the charity during either year.” — page 71
“Donations to sister churches during the year amounted to £942,051 (2024: £518,154): £61,274 to Cyprus (2024: £82,328), £60,600 to Dubai (2024: £60,600), £149,936 to East Timor (2024: £118,695), £77,481 to Greece (2024: £87,603), £16,450 to India (2024: £16,250), £128,316 to Israel (2024: £39,418), £50,720 to Malta (2024: £50,886), £91 of food items to Portugal (2024: £nil) £326,267 to South Korea (2024: £48,000), £1,123 to Sri Lanka (2024: £14,160), £68,593 to Ukraine (2024: £nil) and £1,200 of books sent to Albania, Croatia and Georgia (2024: £214 of books to Lebanon and Poland).” — page 71
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Book sales to sister churches totalled £4,667.
“During the year the charity has purchased advertising services of £252,676 (2024: £252,700) from its trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited and has recharged £208,188 in relation to rent, staffing and other costs (2024: £179,454). Liberty Radio didn’t make a distribution to the charity during either year.” — page 71
“Donations to sister churches during the year amounted to £942,051 (2024: £518,154): £61,274 to Cyprus (2024: £82,328), £60,600 to Dubai (2024: £60,600), £149,936 to East Timor (2024: £118,695), £77,481 to Greece (2024: £87,603), £16,450 to India (2024: £16,250), £128,316 to Israel (2024: £39,418), £50,720 to Malta (2024: £50,886), £91 of food items to Portugal (2024: £nil) £326,267 to South Korea (2024: £48,000), £1,123 to Sri Lanka (2024: £14,160), £68,593 to Ukraine (2024: £nil) and £1,200 of books sent to Albania, Croatia and Georgia (2024: £214 of books to Lebanon and Poland).” — page 71
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Liberty Radio Limited
“The charity’s trading subsidiary Liberty Radio Limited, is wholly owned by the charity and is incorporated in England and Wales and operates as a radio broadcaster” — page 64
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by RSM UK Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Regulator actions

Fundraising Regulator: Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: case report (13/05/2014)

regulatory case report: Universal Church of the Kingdom of God: Charity Commission case report.

Official record

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Total income
£15.4m
Total spending
£14.9m
Cost of raising funds
£272k
Reserves (reported)
£65.3m
Employees
214

Reported reserves equal ~52.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (86% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Cardiff · Northern Ireland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
28/02/2025£15.4m£14.9m
29/02/2024£15.7m£14.2m
28/02/2023£15.6m£13.8m
28/02/2022£15.4m£13.3m
28/02/2021£14.2m£13.9m

Common questions

Is THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the group held total unrestricted net assets of £65,341,826, with free reserves excluding property and loans standing at £13,644,049. The trustees report that these reserves exceed their stated policy target of £4,400,000, which represents three to four months of budgeted unrestricted expenditure. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by RSM UK Audit LLP.

Who funds THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD as a grant recipient include THE VAN NESTE FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE VAN NESTE FOUNDATIONFY2022£5kworking with young BME youths

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Community Fund14/06/2006£5kSeniors Connections

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
Kingdom Legacy Trust1£20k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD HOPE CENTRE.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD£15.4m—0unclear—no doubt
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD HOPE CENTRE FY2025£169k—0unclear—no doubt
HESKETH BANK CHRISTIAN CENTRE FY2024£175k—0above—no doubt
KINGS CHURCH UCKFIELD FY2024£244kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
TRUE JESUS CHURCH (LONDON) FY2025£267k—0unclear—no doubt
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD THE KING'S GLORY CHURCH FY2024£286k—0unclear—no doubt

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