INTER-VARSITY PRESS

Registered charity 1105757 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IVP

The charity publishes and distributes books and other materials which are true to the bible and which communicate the gospel, develop discipleship and strengthen the Church for its mission in the world.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Inter-Varsity Press reported a net expenditure deficit of £166,000 for the year ended 30 April 2025, resulting in unrestricted funds carrying forward of £2,216,000. The trustees note that the charity relies on support from its parent charity, SPCK, which has underwritten the deficit and committed to continuing to own and finance the entity. Despite the current deficit, the trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations for at least 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05202650 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• EAST, Stephen — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• HALLIDAY, Sue — director, appointed 24/09/2019on trustee list
• BEASLEY, Noel Michael Roy — director, appointed 01/09/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (55% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Noel Michael Roy Beasley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen John East
• Susan Vaux Halliday · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON.

• YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON income £8.8m
• ALIVE PUBLISHING LIMITED income £660k
• David Pawson Publishing Limited income £129k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER, IVER income £127k
• WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN income £38.5m
• BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST APOSTOLIC U.K. income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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