HOLLYBUSH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1088838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HOLLYBUSH FELLOWSHIP 21ST CENTURY VIDEO, HOLLYBUSH FELLOWSHIP TAPES ACCOUNT · filing overdue (register status)

* Proclamation of the gospel through church meetings on three times weekly. Support of different missions worldwide.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE COUNTY OF NORTH YORKSHIRE AND IN OTHER SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUST B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT

Area of benefit: NATIONAL IN PRACTICE NORTH YORKSHIRE

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

Registered contact address: North Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£149k
Latest spending
£304k
Registered
2001
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that net assets reduced by £155,506 to £1,039,098, with unrestricted funds depleting over successive years. The trustees report that bank balances remain above £33,000 but are still depleting, prompting radical measures including staff redundancies and the cancellation of overseas mission payments. While the charity continues to operate, the trustees acknowledge a delicate phase with donations down and no substantial legacy receipts since 2023.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets are held as general funds at such a level as there are free reserves to provide financial flexibility over the next financial year (reserves figure: £1.0m)
“The trustees have established the policy whereby the unrestricted funds not committed or invested in tangible fixed assets are held as general funds at such a level as there are free reserves to provide financial flexibility over the next financial year.” — page 5
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Going concern: noted by the trustees or auditor
“Hollybush Christian Fellowship has reached a delicate phase where the funds have been depleting over successive years and we are taking significant action to address this for the future.” — page 4
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Miss J Wilkinson received salary of £27,040 and pension costs of £1,082.
“Miss J Wilkinson, a trustee of Hollybush Christian Fellowship, has been employed as Office Administrator from 1 January 2012. Miss J Wilkinson was paid salary of £27,040 in the year (2023 - £27,040). Additional pension costs paid were £1,082 (2023 - £1,082).” — page 14
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Miss J Wilkinson, a trustee, received salary and pension contributions.
“Miss J Wilkinson, a trustee of Hollybush Christian Fellowship, has been employed as Office Administrator from 1 January 2012. Miss J Wilkinson was paid salary of £27,040 in the year (2023 - £27,040). Additional pension costs paid were £1,082 (2023 - £1,082).” — page 14
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 6
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 40
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2022

  • Volunteers: 40

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 09/07/2026, 251 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 01/11/2023, 1 day after the 31/10/2023 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

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

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

Operates in: North Yorkshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025——
31/12/2024£149k£304k
31/12/2023£174k£231k
31/12/2022£168k£221k
31/12/2021£154k£163k

Common questions

Is HOLLYBUSH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that net assets reduced by £155,506 to £1,039,098, with unrestricted funds depleting over successive years. The trustees report that bank balances remain above £33,000 but are still depleting, prompting radical measures including staff redundancies and the cancellation of overseas mission payments. While the charity continues to operate, the trustees acknowledge a delicate phase with donations down and no substantial legacy receipts since 2023.

Who funds HOLLYBUSH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HOLLYBUSH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP as a grant recipient include BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCHFY2023£2k
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCHFY2022£1k
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCHFY2024Unverified read£90

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HAILSHAM FRONTIERS CHARITABLE TRUST.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HOLLYBUSH CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP£149k—0unclear—noted
HAILSHAM FRONTIERS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£358k—0unclear—no doubt
HOLBROOKS EVANGELICAL CHURCH FY2025£221k—0unclear—no doubt
THE FELLOWSHIP TRUST FY2025£107k—0above—no doubt
HOMELANDS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£225k—0unclear—no doubt
GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS BIBLE CHURCH INTERNATIONAL FY2024£30k—0unclear—no doubt

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