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Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

WYCLIFFE UK LIMITED

Wycliffe UK exists to enable all peoples to engage with the Bible in a language which speaks to their heart. Activities focus on raising awareness of the need for Bible translation into languages without Christian Scripture, and resourcing international partners with people, prayer, and financial support to enable successful translation projects.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
30/09/23£9,343£9,385£-42£770£7,313£6,6238.54486
30/09/22£9,377£8,638£739£380£7,231£6,5719.14085
30/09/21£8,350£7,862£488£300£6,769£6,1389.43561
30/09/20£7,185£7,828£-643£309£6,024£5,6328.63658
30/09/19£7,257£8,189£-932£499£6,763£6,1929.13863
30/09/18£7,177£7,795£-618£635£7,556£6,83410.5270
30/09/17£6,529£6,534£-5£415£8,000£7,16013.1210
30/09/16£5,968£6,298£-330£224£7,506£6,79913170
30/09/15£7,319£6,459£860£212£7,471£6,65112.4150
30/09/14£7,008£6,997£11£253£6,626£5,88410.1170
30/09/13£10,798£7,841£2,957£219£6,633£5,9339.1360
30/09/12£7,799£7,790£9£293£3,676£2,8254.4360
30/09/11£7,722£7,534£187£282£3,667£2,7624.4350
30/09/10£7,633£7,489£144£214£3,480£2,7464.4390
30/09/09£7,673£7,764£-92£221£3,335£2,7354.2390
30/09/08£8,099£7,840£258£213£3,427£2,5934370
30/09/07£7,997£7,451£546£260£3,169£2,3643.8350
30/09/06£7,804£8,089£-284n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/05£9,380£7,420£1,960n/an/an/an/an/an/a
30/09/04£5,945£5,778£168n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 8.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 8.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 91%
Reserves/Spending: 8.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 18.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 58 years
(60 years as a company)

www.wycliffe.org.uk

hello@wycliffe.org.uk

0300 303 1111

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • Religious Activities
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Angola, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burma, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Congo (Democratic Republic), Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, ....more
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
The Jerusalem Trust - Towards the development and roll out of Bible translation software The Bible Translators Assistant
£50,000 01/07/2024
24
Evangelism and Christian Mission
The Jerusalem Trust - Towards Bible translation
£20,350 05/06/2023
12
Christian Evangelism and Relief overseas

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 32-74
  • DR IAN KENNETH KIRBY Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Lecturer
  • DAVID JULES STEINEGGER (Chair) Appointed: 2013, Occupation: Independent Director
  • FOLAJIMI AYODELE ADEDOYIN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Director
  • JAMES TURNER Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Executive
  • KENNETH MACANGUS MACKENZIE Appointed: 1995, Occupation: Director
  • KEVIN STEWART ASHMAN Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • MARY JANE COMONT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Head Of Hr
  • RACHEL LOUISE BRADLEY Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Fundraising And Communications
  • REBECCA HELEN JEAN BENTON Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 22/02/1967, number: 251233
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/09/1964, number: 00819788
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Event History
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Recent reorganisation events:
  • Asset transfer in from THE RICON TRUST on 27/10/2022
  • Asset transfer in from NORTH SHIELDS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP on 11/10/2023
Main office

Wycliffe Bible Translators
CMS House
Watlington Road
Oxford
OX4 6BZ

Objectives

(A) TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR THE TRANSLATION, PUBLICATION AND DISSEMINATION OF THE BIBLE IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AS REFERRED TO IN CLAUSE 3(2) HEREOF, AND(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION (PARTICULARLY IN RELATION TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE, FAITH AND PRACTICE) LANGUAGE AND LITERACY; AND(C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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