THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IN SOUTHERN AFRICA TRUST

Registered charity 1089599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ECLISA

- relieving poverty in such ways as may be thought fit;- alleviating suffering;- promoting Christianity; and,- such other charitable purposes as the Trustees in their absolute discretion think fit

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL HOLD THE CAPITAL AND INCOME OF THE TRUST FUND UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE INCOME AND ALL OR SUCH PART OR PARTS OF THE CAPITAL FOR OR TOWARDS THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE PURPOSE AND TO MAKE DONATIONS TO SUCH CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS AS FALL WITHIN SUCH PURPOSES AT SUCH TIME OR TIMES AND IN SUCH MANNER AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES MAY AT THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION FOR THE PERIOD OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THIS DEED INSTEAD OF APPLYING THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN ANY YEAR ACCUMULATE ALL OR ANY PART OF SUCH INCOME AT COMPOUND INTEREST BY INVESTING THE SAME AND THE RESULTING INCOME IN ANY OF THE AUTHORISED INVESTMENTS AND HOLD THE SAME AS AN ACCRETION TO AND AS PART OF THE CAPITAL OF THE CHARITY WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THEIR RIGHT TO APPLY THE WHOLE OR ANY PART OF SUCH ACCUMULATED INCOME IN ANY SUBSEQUENT YEAR AS IF THE SAME WERE INCOME OF THE CHARITY ARISING IN THE THEN CURRENT YEAR NAMELY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AND BEYOND IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORT DEPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OF EVANGELICAL LEADERS COMMITTED TO THE PROCLAMATION AND TEACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD AND TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST AS SET FORTH IN SCRIPTURE TO WORK IN SOUTHERN AFRICA.

Area of benefit: SOUTHERN AFRICA

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Maldon, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total resources expended were £166,185 against incoming resources of £166,613, resulting in a net increase in funds of £428. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,465, which the trustees consider satisfactory given the policy of maintaining no particular level of reserves.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RT REVD MARTIN MORRISONchair
• Jeremia Majaheni Gule
• PETRUS ODENDAAL
• Rev MARK BURKILL
• Rev Roger Wiles

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

Operates in: South Africa

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK).

• THE ETHIOPIAN CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK) income £368k
• ANGLICAN MISSIONERS OF AFRICA DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION TRUST income £37k
• AID TO BURKINA income £134k
• THE LEADERS OF WORSHIP AND PREACHERS TRUST income £313k
• EC TRUST income £25k
• THE AFRICAN, INDIAN AND SLAVLANDS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £103k

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