BRITISH YOUTH FOR CHRIST

Registered charity 263446 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEOBURY PLACE TRUST LIMITED, YOUTH FOR CHRIST · also registered in Scotland as SC039297 (OSCR)

To proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world by promoting & encouraging the Christian evangelisation of young people & standards of behaviour which accord with the doctrines of the Christian faith providing or assisting in provision of education for young people who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by reason of social, physical or economic circumstances

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE PROTESTANT AND EVANGELICAL TENETS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Dudley, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £200,330 for the year ended 31 August 2024, following a restructuring to reduce expenditure. The trustees consider the total unrestricted funds of £658,266 to be sufficient for anticipated expenditure and confirm adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Youth for Christ (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/03/2022) — 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 (29/10/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Annabel Wheeldon-Clarke
• Jill Garrett
• Martin Bull
• Matthew John Gregory
• Portia Tavengwa
• Simon William Blanchflower CBE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Susan Joanna Godden

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN YOUTH FOUNDATION LIMITED.

• CHRISTIAN YOUTH FOUNDATION LIMITED income £40k
• BURTON YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £119k
• LLANDUDNO YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £55k
• CHRIST FOR THE WORLD income £422k
• BREAKTHROUGH GENERATION FOR CHRIST income £86k
• BICESTER CHRISTIAN ACTION LIMITED income £210k

Side by side with its peers

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