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Registered charity 280577 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN MISSION TO THE COMMUNIST WORLD, Voice of Persecuted Christians · also registered in Scotland as SC040456 (OSCR)

To provide practical and spiritual support to persecuted Christians overseas.To inform and educate the UK Church about the persecution of Christians overseas.

Objects

To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Faith and Ethos Statement; The relief of poverty and other hardship, need or distress, for those who are suffering persecution or marginalisation for their Christian beliefs, and their families, by providing support and assistance; To further the charitable work of the Charity by the advancement of such other charitable purposes as the trustees shall from time to time decide, provided such purposes are consistent with the Statement of Faith and Ethos Statement.

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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bromley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £569,928 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income rising to £3.73 million. Free reserves stood at £1,074,193, significantly exceeding the trustees' target range of £400,000 to £500,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 6 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01506576

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SAUNDERS, Elizabeth Ann — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• PERKINS, Christopher John — director, appointed 19/06/2025on trustee list
• PRINT, Martin Henry — director, appointed 28/03/2024on trustee list
• KARAMI, Robert, Rev — director, appointed 03/07/2023on trustee list
• FACE, Danielle Elizabeth — director, appointed 13/10/2022on trustee list
• BENTLEY, David John — director, appointed 26/06/2020on trustee list
• ASMELASH, Berhane Tesfamariam, Dr — director, appointed 10/04/2018on trustee list
• WAYLAND, Andrew Michael — director, appointed 07/12/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW WAYLAND
• Christopher Perkins
• Danielle Face
• David John Bentley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Berhane Asmelash
• Elizabeth Ann Saunders · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTIN HENRY PRINT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Robert Karami · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Azerbaijan · Bhutan · Burkina Faso · China · Egypt · Eritrea · India · Iran · Iraq · Kazakhstan · Kenya

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

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Side by side with its peers

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