SERVANTS FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 280859 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IN CONTACT LIMITED

The charity seeks to promote, maintain and advance the Christian faith, particularly in relation to cross-cultural communication of the Christian faith.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED ARE:-(A) TO MAINTAIN ADVANCE AND PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY SUCH MEANS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE COMPANY SHALL IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT AND FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD BY THE PROVISION OF FINANCIAL AND OTHER ASSISTANCE AS THE COMPANY SHALL IN ITS ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT(B) TO COMMUNICATE THE TEACHING OF THE BIBLE AND THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THROUGH LEADERSHIP TRAINING COURSES, MISSIONS, SERVICES, MEETINGS, PASTORAL WORK, LECTURES, THE PRINTING PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION OF LITERATURE, AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS AND OTHER MEANS AND TO ORGANISE AND HOLD EVANGELISTIC CONFERENCES AND SCHOOLS (RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL) AND TO MAKE, DISTRIBUTE AND SHOW MOTION PICTURE FILMS DESIGNED FOR CALCULATED TO MAINTAIN ADVANCE OR PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.(C) TO PROMOTE AND UNDERTAKE RESEARCH INTO THE RELATIONSHIP, EFFECT AND IMPACT UPON CHRISTIAN CHURCHES AND CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES AND THE JUDAEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE IN SOCIETY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE OF NON-CHRISTIAN FAITHS AND IDEOLOGIES (INCLUDING NON-FAITH IDEOLOGIES) AND THE PUBLISHING OF SUCH RESEARCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED.

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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £685,833 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total net assets increasing to £16,603,057. The trustees confirmed that free reserves of £11,222,295 are adequate to ensure future financial viability. However, the audit opinion was qualified due to limited evidence regarding the recoverability of a loan to a subsidiary and the ownership of properties in Cyprus.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Charity Commission inquiry

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 27/05/2026, 208 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 12/03/2025, 132 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 12/06/2024, 225 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01437414
• Trading subsidiary: PEWSEY TRADING COMPANY LIMITED Companies House 04414938 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• HOOKER, Darren Lee — director, appointed 11/12/2025on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £1.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/02/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Michael John Yhnell
• Richard Wilson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Charles Riley
• Simon Charles Day · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ugbana Julius Isotuk Oyet

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

Operates in: India · Oxfordshire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST.

• INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £2.7m
• WORLDWIDE MISSION FELLOWSHIP income £379k
• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVANTS LIMITED income £51k
• THE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £107k
• RELEASE INTERNATIONAL income £3.7m
• RELATIONAL MISSION income £513k

Side by side with its peers

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