GUIDING LIGHT FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1183421 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance such charitable purposes (according to the law of England and Wales) as the Trustees see fit from time to time in particular but not limiting to advancing the welfare of young people for the public benefit by making grants and awards to charities which support the same.

Objects

TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES SEE FIT FROM TIME TO TIME IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE RELIEF OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT BY MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDS TO CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WHICH SUPPORT THE SAME.

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

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Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of income over expenditure of £96 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus of £24,258 in the prior year. Unrestricted funds decreased from £45,894 to £21,732, primarily due to the lower surplus and the distribution of donations totaling £64,060. The charity's gross income did not exceed £250,000, qualifying it for an independent examination rather than a full audit.

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 3 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 24/09/2024, 237 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 04/02/2022, 4 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alison Ralstonchair
• JOANNE ELAINE LIVERSIDGE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kate Cavan
• Mark Richard John Wood
• Melanie Jayne Cheshire

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

Operates in: Nepal · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GUIDING LIGHT ASSEMBLY, ENGLAND.

• GUIDING LIGHT ASSEMBLY, ENGLAND income £125k
• LIGHT LONDON income £602k
• GOSPEL LIGHT COMMUNITY CHURCH income £149k
• LIGHT income £806k
• LIFE AND LIGHT FELLOWSHIP CHURCH income £96k
• GREAT LIGHT CHURCH LTD income £274k

Side by side with its peers

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