STEWARDSHIP SERVICES (UKET) LIMITED

Registered charity 234714 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EAST OF ENGLAND EVANGELIZATION TRUST (INCORPORATED), GIVEPLUS, MAXCO TRUST, SOVEREIGN ACCOUNT, SOVEREIGN GIVING, STEWARDSHIP

Stewardship's range of giving account services facilitate tax effective giving to charitable causes in the UK and beyond. Our range of legal and financial support services to Christian charities are detailed in the Trustees' Annual Report.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 46% to £170.9m, driven by a significant rise in donations, while total expenditure rose by 26% to £144.5m. The charity reports a robust financial position with unrestricted reserves of £10.4m, which exceeds its minimum policy requirement of £8.9m, and holds £62.6m in total cash and money market deposits.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Janie Oliver — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Chris Gillies — Chair of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £717k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustpilot: Stewardship scores 3.9/5 from 8 reviews (source) — reviews usually concern the charity’s shops or services, not its charitable performance.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (9,486 likes) · instagram (4,396 followers)

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 2.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alasdair Christopher Gillies
• Andrea Rose-Marie Pattico
• Angela Lynn Rusbridge
• Craig Roland Martin
• Curtis Daniel Hopkins
• David Jules Steinegger · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward Mishambi
• James Ward
• Jennifer Ann Charteris
• Katherine Yeu-Kei Tait
• LEWIS JOHN JACKSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nathan Daniel Whitaker

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

Operates in: Albania · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Belgium · Botswana · Brazil · Bulgaria · Cameroon · Canada · Colombia · Cyprus

Income and spending

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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 UK GIVES LTD.

• UK GIVES LTD income £1.5m
• THE CHARITY SERVICE LIMITED income £1.3m
• BEIS HAMEDRASH SHAAREI TEFILLAH income £133k
• WORD OF LIFE MINISTRIES UK LIMITED income £163k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• GIVINGWORKS income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

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