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

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

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.

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 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (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

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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 YOUTH WITH A MISSION HARPENDEN.

• YOUTH WITH A MISSION HARPENDEN income £2.1m
• YOUTH WITH A MISSION LIMITED income £508k
• BURY ST EDMUNDS AND DISTRICT CHRISTIAN YOUTH income £103k
• REGIONS BEYOND UK income £353k
• CHRISTIAN YOUTH MINISTRIES income £361k
• NORWICH YOUTH FOR CHRIST income £140k

Side by side with its peers

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