WORD OF LIFE

Registered charity 328492 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Word of Life is a small media-based Christian charity, based in the UK. We seek to make the message of the Christian Scriptures accessible to those from non-Christian backgrounds. We produce culturally sensitive courses, books, articles and other materials, in English and a wide range of relevant languages, sold to users throughout the world.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. (FOR FULL OBJECTS SEE CONTITUTION.)

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £16,892 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, the trustees report that free unrestricted reserves of £136,044 are sufficient to allow the charity to continue operating its current activities over the next financial year.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• CANON PHIL RAWLINGS MA, BTHchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Abdul Erwin Mustapha
• Flora Catherine Davies
• John Douglas
• Rev Azita Jabbari · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WORD FOR THE WORLD, UK.

• THE WORD FOR THE WORLD, UK income £307k
• SHEPSHED WORD OF LIFE CHURCH income £182k
• WORD OF LIFE MINISTRIES (LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM) income £130k
• SPEAK LIFE income £705k
• THE SERVANTS OF THE WORD TRUST income £367k
• THE WORD OF GOD MINISTRY income £113k

Side by side with its peers

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