LIGHT

Registered charity 1201633 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Producing quality Christian music and educational resources. Live music bands, printed materials, the internet and multi-media are all used to communicate Christianity to young people in ways that are relevant to today?s youth culture and perspectives

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE TRUST ARE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:-1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND2) TO ADVANCE THE STUDY OF MUSIC AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED) TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE IN SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES AND CHRISTIAN GROUPS AND IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £42,293 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £8,239. The trustees acknowledge that free reserves of £3,601 are significantly below their stated policy target of £175,000, presenting a challenge to financial resilience. Despite this, the trustees consider the charity a going concern, citing an active supporter base, a match-funding agreement with the Souter Foundation, and cost-control measures.

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 6 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Timothy John Levellchair
• Akeel Sachak
• Alex Millington
• David Campbell Niblock · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nathan cross
• Oladapo Oluwaseyi Badejo mr
• Ruth Joelle JACKSON
• faye de Pelet

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

Operates in: 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 THE LIFE AND LIGHT MISSIONS.

• THE LIFE AND LIGHT MISSIONS income £921k
• CHILD LIGHT LIMITED income £2.7m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF FAWKHAM AND HARTLEY income £105k
• LIGHT PROJECT PETERBOROUGH income £692k
• LIGHT LONDON income £987k
• THE LIGHTWAVE COMMUNITY C.I.O. income £303k

Side by side with its peers

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