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Registered charity · West Yorkshire

Christians Against Poverty

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £15m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.capuk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Christians Against Poverty
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£15m£15m
  • 2024£19m£20m
  • 2022£15m£17m
Earlier years
  • 2021£15m£15m
  • 2020£15m£14m

Income trend, 2020 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY FOR PERSONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS BY REASON OF THEIR SOCIAL AND OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES BY PROVIDING AND PROMOTING THE PROVISIONS OF ADVICE AND OTHER SERVICES AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN ALL MATTERS RELATING TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR PERSONAL FINANCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND DOCTRINE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Grants received

26 grants · £1,952,539 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Work and Pensions · £1,140,009 (3 grants)
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport · £212,796 (2 grants)
  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £170,000 (4 grants)
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £106,398
  • The Jerusalem Trust · £100,000

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.4y median 2y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (8)

12
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 12The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Religious Activities 9General Charitable Purposes 2Other Charitable Purposes 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Finance 15Other services 10Health and social care 9

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2024
2025
incomespending£15.0m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

0.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 4.5 in 2020

355 from 313 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1097217
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 3RD FEBRUARY 2003 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION 5 FEBRUARY 2007, AS AMENDED BY WRITTEN RESOLUTION 10 SEPTEMBER 2007
Companies House
Company number 04655175 · Active
Contact on the register
01274760720 · info@capuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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