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.

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

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LANCASHIRE YOUTH CHALLENGE.

• LANCASHIRE YOUTH CHALLENGE income £200k
• CHALLENGE ADVENTURE CHARITIES income £159k
• Challenge Ministries UK income £544k
• HELP IN NEED TODAY income £558k
• THE YORKSHIRE YOUNG ACHIEVERS FOUNDATION income £115k
• CHALLENGE WALES income £315k

Side by side with its peers

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