UNLOCK

Registered charity 313454 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EVANGELICAL URBAN TRAINING PROJECT

Unlocking-real life stories of urban people. Revealing-good news of the down to earth Christ. Releasing-life changing skills and confidence. Unlock is a Christian charity that has worked since 1973 to help urban churches of any denomination respond to the challenges in their areas. We are especially concerned with helping people in "text-shy" cultures to explore their faith. We place trained unloc

Objects

THE EDUCATION OF MINISTERS AND LAY PEOPLE CONCERNED WITH ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS BY SUCH MEANS AS REGIONAL TRAINING COURSES, RESEARCH PROJECTS, STUDY GROUPS AND SMALL CONFERENCES FOR EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS TO EQUIP THEM TO BE MORE AFFECTIVE IN THEIR CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN THEIR OWN AREAS OF LIFE AND WORK. RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH PROJECTS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

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: Rotherham, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing of resources of £2,902 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £48,478 to £46,268. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £15,077, which the trustees note is below their stated policy target of maintaining sufficient reserves to cover a minimum of three months' operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICHOLAS ARTHUR CARTERchair
• ANDREW MICHAEL DORTON · trustee of 13 other charities
• Rev Canon Suzanne Sheriff

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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• CHURCH ALIVE income £105k
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• ARUN COMMUNITY CHURCH income £720k

Side by side with its peers

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