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)

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO GLORIFY GOD THROUGH THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL AND OTHER SUCH ENDEAVOURS THAT LEAD TO DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST BEING MULTIPLIED AMONG JAPANESE, WHEREVER THEY MAY BE IN THE WORLD. TO BE ACHIEVED BOTH DIRECTLY THROUGH THE CIO'S OWN ACTIVITIES AND THROUGH PARTNERSHIP AND COOPERATION WITH OTHER CHRISTIAN INDIVIDUALS, CHURCHES OR ORGANISATIONS WITH SIMILAR OR COMPATIBLE AIMS.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £528k from £559k in the prior year, driven by lower restricted fund income, while total expenditure also fell to £469k. The charity reports a significant deficit on unrestricted funds of £24k, though total funds increased to £692k due to a surplus in restricted funds. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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 4 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.1 months of spending — above 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

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JOY CHRISTIAN CENTRE INTERNATIONAL.

• JOY CHRISTIAN CENTRE INTERNATIONAL income £43k
• SHARING CHRIST INTERNATIONALLY income £34k
• MIRACLE CHRISTIAN CENTRE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED income £151k
• THE JAPANESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK) income £42k
• LIGHT OF GRACE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £31k
• THE JAPAN SOCIETY income £664k

Side by side with its peers

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