Waverley Abbey Trust

Registered charity 294387 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CRUSADE FOR WORLD REVIVAL, CWR

Waverley Abbey Trust seeks to achieve its goal of the advancement of the Christian faith, by providing biblically based solutions to every day life and relationships through its teaching, training and publishing programmes in the UK and overseas.

Objects

(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WORLDWIDE(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WORLDWIDE

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Waverley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £69,719 for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total income growing 27% to £4.7M. Per the trustees' report, free reserves amounted to £0.9M, and the charity held £1.7M in cash, representing 4.4 months of forward cash costs, which exceeds their stated policy of holding at least three months' forward cover.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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
• 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 01990308

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.

• ALBERTO, Elisa — director, appointed 03/02/2025on trustee list
• KUCHANNY, Christopher — director, appointed 08/08/2022on trustee list
• COSTA, Ken — director, appointed 08/08/2022not on trustee list
• GREIG, Peter Govan Fairchild — director, appointed 08/08/2022on trustee list
• ROCHE, Fergal William — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
• HICKMAN, Simon Jonathan — director, appointed 28/07/2021on trustee list
• PEET, Robert James — director, appointed 19/11/2019on trustee list
• HAWES, Simon Benjamin — secretary, appointed 20/10/2022

Official officers record.

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 £290k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 27.1% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/03/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Kuchanny
• Elisa Alberto · trustee of 3 other charities
• Fergal Roche
• Kenneth Costa
• Peter Greig · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert James Peet
• Simon Jonathan Hickman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WARLEY BAPTIST CHURCH.

• WARLEY BAPTIST CHURCH income £137k
• WAVERTREE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTRE income £312k
• Wellsprings Community Church income £181k
• WRAY CHAPEL income £34k
• WELLSPRING CHURCH (WATFORD) income £675k
• ABBEY CHURCH CIO income £175k

Side by side with its peers

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