SHINE RELIEF TRUST

Registered charity 1168458 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Shine Relief Trust was established in 2008 by a group of UK and Malawian Christians with a heart to seek justice for the poor and to see renewed hope and vitality brought to the rural communities of Malawi. Shine Malawi works in Kuntumanje, Zomba District, the project area was chosen after a situation analysis revealed a high need for a relief project to support orphans and vulnerable children.

Objects

1. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SICKNESS AND DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WHICH MAY BE CAUSED BY HIV/AIDS, IN MALAWI, THE UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.2. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF, AND THE PRESERVATION OF GOOD HEALTH OF CHILDREN IN MALAWI WHO ARE ORPHANED, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY DUE TO HIV/AIDS RELATED CONDITIONS. 3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF MALAWIAN ORPHANS OVER THE AGE OF 18 IN MALAWI THE UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.4. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN MALAWI, THE UK AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.

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 · Disability · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£44k

Latest spending

£37k

Registered

2016

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained unrestricted reserves of £7,164, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the financial statements accorded with those records, with no material issues identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three and six month’s expenditure (reserves figure: £7k)

“It is the policy of the charity that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level equivalent to between three and six month’s expenditure.” — page 8

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Trustee D Irvin is employed as administrator and received reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses.

“Mrs D Irvin was employed as the administrator for the charity, no other Trustee received remuneration or benefits from the charity during the year except for out of pocket expenses relating to travel or other expenditure wholly related to the Charitable activities of Shine Relief Trust. These were as follows D Irvin £3,524 (2023 -£6,336), P Irvin £0 (2023 - £826)” — page 19

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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
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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

Volunteers: 10
Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

Volunteers: 20

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2023

Volunteers: 24
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
Grant-making is its main activity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (16/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Philip Andrew Irvinchair
Chinasa Okafor
Debbie Irvin
Paul Masters

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

Operates in: Malawi · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£44k	£37k
31/03/2024	£23k	£34k
31/03/2023	£30k	£49k
31/03/2022	£24k	£171k
31/03/2021	£251k	£82k

Common questions

Is SHINE RELIEF TRUST financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity maintained unrestricted reserves of £7,164, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet their policy target of three to six months' expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and the financial statements accorded with those records, with no material issues identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds SHINE RELIEF TRUST?

Funders whose own accounts filings name SHINE RELIEF TRUST as a grant recipient include YORK VINEYARD.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
YORK VINEYARD	FY2025	£3k
YORK VINEYARD	FY2024	£3k
YORK VINEYARD	FY2022	£1k	Ministry to the poor
YORK VINEYARD	FY2021	£200	NLC Appeal

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
ALLAN AND NESTA FERGUSON CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT	1	£10k
ROCKCLIFFE CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£10k
THE RANDAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£10k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FETCHAM	1	£1k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MYMALAWI.

MYMALAWI income £212k
SHINES CHILDREN (UGANDA) UK SUPPORTERS income £157k
THE NCHIMA TRUST income £88k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SHINE RELIEF TRUST	£44k	—	above	—	no doubt
MYMALAWI FY2025	£212k	—	below	—	no doubt
SHINES CHILDREN (UGANDA) UK SUPPORTERS FY2025	£157k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NCHIMA TRUST FY2025	£88k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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