CHARIS COMMUNICATIONS

Registered charity 1119219 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Christian leadership training in the UK & overseas; schemes for poverty relief, healthcare and education have been supported in Uganda, and Nigeria; consultancy advice provision to numerous Christian organisations; encouraging and enabling churches, ministers and ministries to work together to attain greater effectiveness.

Objects

1) ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH;2) ADVANCE EDUCATION AND PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN PROVIDING AND IMPROVE ACCESS TO TRAINING AND ASSOCIATED FACILITIES;3) RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP; AND4) RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PROMOTE GOOD HEALTH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased from £38,031 to £27,183 due to a net expenditure exceeding income. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting one to two months of expenditure, and the current unrestricted reserves of £27,183 are above this implied target. The entity remains solvent with positive net assets and adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REV DR HUGH JAMES OSGOODchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• David Darren Roy · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES MCGLASHAN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jennifer Jane Shrimpton BSc · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev OMAWUMI MICHAEL EFUEYE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev TREVOR HOWARD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev WILLIAM ELI SUNU · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Nigeria · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev OMAWUMI MICHAEL EFUEYE — trustee here and at CHAPEL OF LIFE

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHARIS TRUST.

• THE CHARIS TRUST income £591k
• FOCUS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £126k
• CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCHES WORLDWIDE income £736k
• Global Leadership Network UK income £106k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k
• ACTIVE AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £219k

Side by side with its peers

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