THE CHRISTIAN TRUST

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Consolidated group

Auditor

Xeinadin Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Trustees have a reasonable expectation that the Charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing financial statements.”

Group structure

1. THE CHRISTIAN TRUST · parent
   1. Glyndley Manor Estates Limited 100% · England · property management company
   2. Ellel Ministries Limited 100% · England · holding company (Dormant)
   3. Sovereign-World Limited 100% · England · publishers of Christian books
   4. Ellel Ministries Hungary Kft 100% · Hungary · property management company
   5. Overseas Education Trust Limited 100% · England · intermediate holding company (Dormant)
   6. Mediterranean Tours Limited 100% · England · facilitator of overseas tours
   7. TCT Properties No1 Limited 100% · England · holding of investment property

Significant events

• “During the latter part of 2024 serious discussions began about the viability of our book publishing subsidiary, Sovereign World Ltd. Profitability had been a challenge for many years, and the losses had reached unsustainable levels. An insolvency report was commissioned through an independent accounting firm early in 2025 which confirmed that Sovereign World Ltd was insolvent.”
• “On 19 February 2024 the proposed development on land surrounding Ellel Grange was refused by the Lancaster City Council Planning Development Committee. The Trustees have subsequently heard that the land owner now intends to sell the land in question.”
• “The summer of 2024 saw the sixth UK intake of young people on our Undivided gap year programme, and we are currently able to facilitate overseas and EU nationals joining our team for periods of up to two years' service in the UK on Temporary Worker - Religious Worker Visas.”
• “In 2025 we have undertaken work to streamline the subsidiary operations by making efforts towards winding up Sovereign World Ltd. Mediterranean Tours Ltd and TCT Properties No1 Limited as they have now fulfilled the purposes for which they were originally established.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

6

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

1

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  -27.7%

  £1,922,402 → £1,389,832

• Cash

  -43.6%

  £2,363,870 → £1,332,483

• Net assets

  -2.9%

  £5,751,838 → £5,583,879

• Employees

  -16.3%

  98 → 82

• Wages

  -23.9%

  £1,157,200 → £881,021

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers