Equipping Pastors Worldwide Ltd

Registered charity 1127503 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN BOOKS WORLDWIDE

EPW provides reformed Christian literature and training for individual pastors and bible teachers in the majority world who lack resources and/or who have had little formal theological training. The charity also augments seminary libraries. We operate mainly in Africa and Asia but also work in Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PUBLISHING, SELLING AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE AND OTHER RELIGIOUS ARTICLES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE

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

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net free reserves decreased to £124,223, which remains within the trustees' stated policy target of 3 to 6 months' budgeted expenditure. Although total income fell significantly due to the absence of a prior-year one-off transfer, overall costs also decreased, resulting in a net expenditure for the year.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW STRANG MACLAY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Daryl Eric Reynold Jones
• Dr Nicola Elizabeth Ayers
• Ian Robert Flanders · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Nigel Philip Pountney
• Kenneth Gordon Brownell · trustee of 3 other charities
• Olawale Akinrogunde · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Maybin Kabwe
• Richard Gray
• Stefan Paul Cantore

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

Operates in: Brazil · Burma · Ethiopia · Ghana · India · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Nepal · Nigeria · Pakistan · Serbia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• SOVEREIGN WORLD TRUST income £35k
• NORTH WEST GOSPEL PARTNERSHIP income £168k
• EPSOM CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £32k
• EQUIPE income £42k
• COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL EUROPE AND MENA income £388k
• SHARING CHRIST INTERNATIONALLY income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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