JAPAN CHRISTIAN LINK

Registered charity 1164572 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JCL

To help make a significant difference in the progress of the gospel among the Japanese people over the first half of this century.We do this through educating, encouraging and equipping the Body of Christ so that more and more the good news of Jesus Christ is proclaimed clearly, and disciples of Jesus Christ multiplied among the Japanese people, for his glory. (Matthew 28:19-20)

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £559k while expenditure rose to £630k, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £417k at year-end, with the trustees confirming no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Canon IAN GEOFFREY WALKERchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Anna Tetsuya
• Dr Jonathan Mark Batchelor
• Dr Mark Henry James
• Mami Meader
• Mark Thomas Crossley
• Miho Walker
• Susan Catherine Burt

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

Operates in: Australia · Germany · Japan · Throughout England And Wales · United States

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 THE JAPAN SOCIETY.

• THE JAPAN SOCIETY income £664k
• SHARE JESUS income £133k
• OUR JESUS LIVES MINISTRIES income £123k
• CHURCH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE WORLD.(THE TOKOISTAS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM) income £124k
• CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON income £2.2m
• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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