UNITED CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS LIMITED

Registered charity 299128 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UCB EUROPE

Non-denominational Christian media activities. Our vision is Changing Lives for Good by the power of God's Word.

Objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE ASSOCIATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR OVERSEAS: A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGIOUS OR OTHER EDUCATION; AND C) THE RELIEF OF THE AGED POOR SICK OR DISABLED.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided text is an excerpt from the statutory auditor's report by Crowe U.K. LLP regarding the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2025. It outlines the audit procedures performed, including assessments of legal compliance and fraud risks, but does not contain specific financial data, reserves figures, or trustee remuneration details necessary to assess the charity's financial health or governance status.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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
• 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 02182533
• Trading subsidiary: UCB MEDIA LTD Companies House 03439122

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UCB - United Christian Broadcasters Ltd (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• YOUSAF, Helen — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• ELLIOTT, Neil Arthur — director, appointed 18/05/2018on trustee list
• MCCROSSAN, Simon Gerard — director, appointed 18/05/2018on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Ellis David — director, appointed 19/06/2014on trustee list
• STACEY, Diana Alverey, Reverend — director, appointed 13/10/2006on trustee list
• SCOTLAND, Alan Keith — director, appointed 27/06/2000on trustee list
• GARRINGTON-MILLER, Maxine — secretary, appointed 21/01/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ALAN KEITH SCOTLANDchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Helen Yousaf
• Neil Arthur Elliott
• REV David Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev DIANA ALVEREY STACEY
• Simon Gerard McCrossan

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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Side by side with its peers

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