THE KERUSSO TRUST

Registered charity 1145560 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KERUSSO TRUST AND KERUSSO PARTNERSHIP · also registered in Scotland as SC044848 (OSCR)

The Kerusso Trust is an enabling charity that supports Christian training and education programmes in Malawi. We partner with Malawian Christian organisations and trusted individuals to provide non-denominational Bible-based training programmes for 1000s of pastors, church leaders, village chiefs, youth and children in rural Malawi, and bursaries for girls to attend a Christian secondary school.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ('OBJECTS') WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES, AND AS ANCILLARY THERETO PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY, ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF SICKNESS, WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Aberdeen City, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £2,678 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees maintain that the unrestricted cash reserves of £32,690 represent a healthy level of reserves to meet ongoing commitments, aligning with their stated policy target of a minimum working cash reserve of £27,000.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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 SC413002

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Kerusso Trust (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ROLLINSON, Andrew Robert, Rev — director, appointed 16/03/2026on trustee list
• PARTRIDGE, Christine Elizabeth — director, appointed 14/10/2025on trustee list
• HAYES, Andrew Paul, Rev — director, appointed 26/06/2023on trustee list
• STEPHENS, Jonathan Paul, Professor — director, appointed 23/02/2016not on trustee list
• GROVES, Jonathan David, Doctor — director, appointed 12/12/2011on trustee list
• GROVES, Ann Ruth — director, appointed 12/12/2011on trustee list
• GROVES, Jonathan David, Doctor — secretary, appointed 12/12/2011

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £600k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Andrew Paul Hayeschair
• Christine Elizabeth Partridge
• Dr JONATHAN DAVID GROVES
• Professor Jonathan Paul Stephens MBE
• RUTH GROVES
• Rev Andrew Robert Rollinson

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

Operates in: Malawi · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 MALAWI SCHOOLS TRUST.

• MALAWI SCHOOLS TRUST income £43k
• THE NCHIMA TRUST income £88k
• MASAMBIRO UK income £59k
• SALTMALAWI TRUST income £31k
• THE KISUMU CHILDREN TRUST income £146k
• MALAWI ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN SUPPORT CIO income £110k

Side by side with its peers

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