SCRIPTURE UNION

Registered charity 213422 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCRIPTURE UNION ENGLAND AND WALES, SU, UNDEB Y GAIR

We help children and young people explore the Bible, respond to Jesus and grow in faith. We make Jesus known through our work in communities, schools, holidays and missions. Through publishing, using print and digital media, we aim to inspire leaders to make disciples of children and young people with our resources and to equip Christians to grow in discipleship with Bible guides and publications.

Objects

TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY BY SHARING THE GOOD NEWS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST WITH PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THE OBJECTS SHALL BE CARRIED OUT IN PARTICULAR, BUT LIMITED TO, WORKING WITH CHURCHES: 1. BY MAKING GOD'S GOOD NEWS KNOWN TO CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES; AND2. BY ENCOURAGING PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO MEET GOD DAILY THROUGH THE BIBLE AND PRAYERSO THAT IN EACH CASE THEY MAY COME TO PERSONAL FAITH IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, GROW IN CHRISTIAN MATURITY AND BECOME BOTH COMMITTED CHURCH MEMBERS AND SERVANTS OF A WORLD IN NEED.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £977,000 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by deliberate investment in its 'Revealing Jesus' strategy and an impairment adjustment to its National Office building. Despite the deficit, total unrestricted reserves stood at £3,089,000, which is above the Trustees' stated target range of £1.1m to £1.5m, although this figure includes £677,000 of accrued legacy income where cash receipt may be delayed. The Trustees plan to significantly reduce financial deficits over the next two years while continuing to invest in resources to grow donation income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £90,001 - £100,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 4 (FY2024) → 6 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00039828

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Scripture Union (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• HEFFER, Rachael Mary — director, appointed 12/02/2026on trustee list
• DALY, Caroline Sarah — director, appointed 04/02/2026on trustee list
• BINNEY, Mark — director, appointed 01/07/2025on trustee list
• SMART, Sarah Jane — director, appointed 04/09/2023on trustee list
• MORRIS, Sandra — director, appointed 03/01/2022on trustee list
• FORSYTH, Malcolm William — director, appointed 19/11/2020on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Junior Charles — director, appointed 05/02/2020on trustee list
• EVANS, Richard Alastair — director, appointed 11/07/2019on trustee list
• GODDEN, Richard Westacott — director, appointed 19/07/2018on trustee list
• HURST, Kim Barbara — director, appointed 20/09/2017on trustee list
• WINNING, Susan Gwen — secretary, appointed 01/01/2013

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £810k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Westacott Goddenchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Caroline Sarah Daly · trustee of 1 other charity
• JUNIOR CHARLES JOHNSON
• Malcolm William Forsyth · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Binney · trustee of 3 other charities
• RICHARD ALASTAIR EVANS
• Rachael Mary Heffer
• SANDRA MORRIS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Sarah Jane Smart

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

Operates in: Armenia · Australia · Bolivia · Botswana · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Croatia · Czech Republic · Estonia · Eswatini · Fiji · France · Germany

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCRIPTURE GIFT MISSION (INCORPORATED).

• SCRIPTURE GIFT MISSION (INCORPORATED) income £1.0m
• SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL income £879k
• CHRISTIAN YOUTH FOUNDATION LIMITED income £40k
• CHRIST DISCIPLES MISSION income £169k
• THE CHURCH AT JUNCTION 10 income £1000k
• SHOW JESUS income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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