KINGSWAY CLC TRUST

Registered charity 265612 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KINGSWAY TRUST

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH THE PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF BOOKS AND MUSIC AND EDUCATIONAL EVENTS.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a small surplus of £3,454 for the year ended 31 March 2024, following a significant deficit in the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the organization remains dependent on financial support from related parties and has established a reserves policy target of three months of general expenditure, which it considers desirable but does not explicitly confirm is currently met.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Berringers LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £900k. 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 ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (98% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• WILLIAM EDWARD OWENchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• DUNCAN PAUL ROBERTSON REID
• Herve Yves Lessous · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOSEPH PETER CERRA
• John Michael Watkins · trustee of 3 other charities
• Linda Owen
• NEIL WARDROPE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Stephen Banner · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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.

• Herve Yves Lessous — trustee here and at CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK)
• John Michael Watkins — trustee here and at CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK)
• NEIL WARDROPE — trustee here and at CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK)
• Stephen Banner — trustee here and at CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK)
• WILLIAM EDWARD OWEN — trustee here and at CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK)

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 KINGSWAY INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE.

• KINGSWAY INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £6.5m
• KINGSWAY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £161k
• KING'S CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £381k
• KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH LONDON income £143k
• KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH income £1.0m
• CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £130k

Side by side with its peers

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