CHRISTIAN RESPONSE

Registered charity 1062623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO EASTERN EUROPE, CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO EASTERN EUROPE - CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO ROMANIA

The Charity supports needy families and individuals through churches and other reliable organisations in Moldova, Ukraine and Romania. This is accomplished through regular financial support to families, churches, soup kitchens and other select centres, to help with medical needs, and the collection, transporting and distribution of humanitarian aid including Christmas shoe boxes and family parcels

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE MOLDOVA, UKRAINE, ROMANIA

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

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets were £130,462 at the end of the year, which is above the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £50,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £80,210 for the year, funded primarily by unrestricted donations, with no employees and all activities undertaken by volunteers.

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 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Investment
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CR2EE (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Littlejohn
• HUGH NOEL ALICESTON SCUDDER
• Richard Frank Critchley

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

Operates in: Devon · Moldova · Romania · Ukraine

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MOLDOVAN MISSION.

• MOLDOVAN MISSION income £218k
• ROMANIAN MINISTRIES income £241k
• KING'S CHRISTIAN CENTRE - MOLD income £112k
• CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO income £763k
• REGIONS BEYOND UK income £353k
• CHRISTIAN HOPE INTERNATIONAL income £399k

Side by side with its peers

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