WYCLIFFE UK LIMITED

Registered charity 251233 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as VISION 2025, WBT, WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS, WYCLIFFE CENTRE, WYCLIFFE UK, WYNET · also registered in Scotland as SC039140 (OSCR)

Wycliffe UK exists to enable all peoples to engage with the Bible in a language which speaks to their heart. Activities focus on raising awareness of the need for Bible translation into languages without Christian Scripture, and resourcing international partners with people, prayer, and financial support to enable successful translation projects.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £10,468k while total expenditure rose to £10,973k, resulting in a net deficit of £386k for the year. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £5,756k, representing 7.1 months of total annual expenditure, which the trustees consider sufficient to ensure stability and continuity of operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wycliffe Bible Translators (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Ross · trustee of 1 other charity
• DR Ian Kenneth Kirby
• James Turner · trustee of 1 other charity
• KENNETH MACANGUS MACKENZIE
• Kevin Stewart Ashman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mary Jane Comont
• Rachel Louise Bradley
• Rebecca Helen Jean Benton

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

Operates in: Angola · Australia · Austria · Bangladesh · Benin · Botswana · Brazil · Burkina Faso · Burma · Cambodia · Cameroon · Canada

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• James Turner — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREAT CHESHAM

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WYCLIFFE BAPTIST CHURCH.

• WYCLIFFE BAPTIST CHURCH income £712k
• WYCLIF INDEPENDENT CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION LIMITED income £618k
• THE WORD FOR THE WORLD, UK income £307k
• WYCHVILLE LIMITED income £689k
• CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £130k
• WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN income £38.5m

Side by side with its peers

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