TEEN CHALLENGE UK

Registered charity 298900 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TEEN CHALLENGE · also registered in Scotland as SC039475 (OSCR)

The main object of the charity is to help young people with life controlling problems to become mentally sound, emotionally balanced, socially adjusted, physically well and spiritually alive.

Objects

A. ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION PARTICULARLY AMONGST YOUNG PEOPLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF BELIEF SET OUT IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE TRUST DEED. B. THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE RELATING TO MENTAL OR PHYSICAL ILL HEALTH OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES OR DRUG OR ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY. C. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY OR HOMELESSNESS AMONG ANY PERSONS WHO ARE THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE OBJECTS IN SUB CLAUSE A OR B ABOVE. D. THE PROVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL REHABILITATION TO ANY PERSONS WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN BENEFICIARIES OF ANY OF THE OBJECTS SET OUT ABOVE.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rushcliffe, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £47,913 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a deficit of £274,209 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted fund balances carried forward were £4,409,989, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover residential centre overheads for at least six months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole & Co. Discloses 5 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
• Investment
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 25/03/2026, 53 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Teen Challenge UK (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (70% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID WILLIAMS · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Kojo Wood
• Rev PHILIP ANDREW HILLS
• STEPHEN REILLY

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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Government & lottery funding

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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 TEEN CHALLENGE LONDON.

• TEEN CHALLENGE LONDON income £1.0m
• TEEN ENTERPRISE UK income £47k
• TEEN CRISIS UK income £119k
• PROJECT CHALLENGE income £691k
• TEEN ACTION income £342k
• YOUTH CHALLENGE OXFORDSHIRE income £85k

Side by side with its peers

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