UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 306137 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTER VARSITY FELLOWSHIP TRUST LIMITED, UCCF, UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TRUST, UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TRUST

To advance the Evangelical Christian Faith among students in universities, theological colleges, training colleges, technical colleges and similar institutions in Great Britain and throughout the world, in accordance with the fundamental truths of Christianity as revealed in Holy Scripture and as set out in clause 3 of memorandum and articles of association.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the financial year with a surplus of £284,517, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £702,584. Per the trustees' report, this reserve level represents 7.56 weeks of operating costs, which is slightly below the stated policy target of eight weeks. The charity notes a substantial underlying deficit in its budget projections, which it intends to fund using these existing reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UCCF (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt Lillicrap — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Mary Comont — Director of People (source)
• Benedict Harding — Director of Ministry Operations (source)
• Tim Rudge — Field Director (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gareth Eoin Burnschair
• David George McNee
• Imogen Faith Hutchinson
• James Kenneth MacKenzie
• Lesley Allison Cheesman · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark James Childs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Melanie Lacy
• Simon Christopher Day

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED.

• THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED income £596k
• TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k
• CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION CIO income £399k
• RIPON COLLEGE CUDDESDON income £2.5m
• SPURGEONS COLLEGE income £1.1m
• THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE income £3.8m

Side by side with its peers

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