HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 514595 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To facilitate the establishment of a local church which acts as a positive influence on the local community and which seeks to be a benefit to other local churches spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. These activities include a varied youth programme, building and maintaining of relationships with like minded churches and continuing the support of CB&C (the trading arm of the Fellowship)

Objects

(A) THE PROCLAMATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT THE HUDDERSFIELD AREA AND ELSEWHERE. (B) THE FURTHERANCE OF THE CHRISTIAN WORK OF THE HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP AT HUDDERSFIELD BEING THAT OF THE BELIEVERS HOLDING THE DOCTRINES OF BELIEF SET FORTH IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE DECLARATION OF TRUST (C) THE RELIEF OF HUMAN SUFFERING AND POVERTY CONSEQUENT UPON THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL LOCAL NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER.

Area of benefit: HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£2.5m
Latest spending
£2.5m
Registered
1983
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total consolidated resources expended were £2,507,123, with charitable activities accounting for the majority of this spend. The charity holds significant long-term liabilities, including a bank loan facility of £3.5m agreed in March 2026. Per the trustees' report, the charity had no charitable commitments at the year end.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Trustees signed personal guarantees for bank loans
“As part of the banking facilities for Huddersfield Christian Fellowship Registered Charity, four of the Trustees have signed a non joint personal guarantee for a limited amount. The total aggregate amount guaranteed by all the Trustees amounts to £232,000.” — page 30
Per its FY2026 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2026

  • Volunteers: 675
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity; other trustee benefit
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2025

  • Volunteers: 650
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity; other trustee benefit
  • Has a trading subsidiary

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/01/2024

  • Volunteers: 600
  • Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (£60,001–£70,000: 1)
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Has a trading subsidiary

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

Total income
£2.5m
Total spending
£2.5m
Cost of raising funds
£568k

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (71% 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: 22.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/01/2026£2.5m£2.5m
31/01/2025£2.5m£2.3m
31/01/2024£2.2m£2.1m
31/01/2023£1.9m£1.7m
31/01/2022£1.8m£1.4m

Common questions

Is HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The accounts state that total consolidated resources expended were £2,507,123, with charitable activities accounting for the majority of this spend. The charity holds significant long-term liabilities, including a bank loan facility of £3.5m agreed in March 2026. Per the trustees' report, the charity had no charitable commitments at the year end. Its FY2026 accounts were audited.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUDDERSFIELD MISSION.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP£2.5m——unclear—no doubt
HUDDERSFIELD MISSION FY2025£547k—0below—no doubt
MEADOWHEAD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FY2025£461k—0above—no doubt
CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FY2025£45k—0above—no doubt
SOUTHEND CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FY2025£543k—0above—no doubt
HODDESDON CHRISTADELPHIAN SERVICES FY2025£69k—0above—no doubt

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