ELAM MINISTRIES

Registered charity 1099143 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Bible training and education, Women's ministry, Scripture printing and distribution, Books & resources, Media, Advocacy and Relief.

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WORLDWIDE.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WORLDWIDE. 3. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY WORLDWIDE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £38,558 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total incoming resources of £3,121,043 and total expenditure of £3,082,485. Unrestricted funds stood at £4,276,052, significantly exceeding the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £140,000 per month (approximately £420,000 annually). The accounts were audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited, who confirmed a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bennewith 2018 Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2023) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment 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
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04594727 · Financial health read from its filings

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Yeghnazar — Executive Director (source)

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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BROWN, Lindsay, Dr. — director, appointed 25/01/2021on trustee list
• DEVARAJ, Kuniyal Kandi — director, appointed 07/12/2017on trustee list
• WORTON, Roland — director, appointed 07/12/2017on trustee list
• YEGHNAZAR, David Ara — director, appointed 07/12/2017on trustee list
• KUHN, Alexia, Mrs. — director, appointed 01/11/2009on trustee list
• YEGHNAZAR, Samuel, Rev. — director, appointed 19/11/2002not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £50k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 4.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALEXIA KUHN
• David Ara Yeghnazar
• Kuniyal Kandi Devaraj
• Lindsay Brown · trustee of 3 other charities
• MR R ROSHANZAMIR
• MR S YEGHNAZAR
• Roland Worton

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

Operates in: Australia · Austria · Denmark · Germany · Greece · Spain · Throughout England · Turkey

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ELIJAH GOOD NEWS MINISTRIES (EGNM).

• ELIJAH GOOD NEWS MINISTRIES (EGNM) income £111k
• NEW JERUSALEM MINISTRY income £591k
• ELEM CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k
• EAST VALE MINISTRY AREA income £279k
• ELLY CHARITY income £83k
• THE REDEEMED EVANGELICAL MISSION income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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