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Chrestos Mission

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1095325South CroydonOverseas aid and international
Income£127k2025-12-31
Spending£140ksame year
Spent / received94%5-year average
Size in its cause77th pctOverseas aid and international
Registered2003Charitable company
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Chrestos Mission is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in South Croydon. It was registered in January 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, overseas aid/famine relief, religious activities and economic/community development/employment, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 04500963). It says it provides human resources, provides buildings/facilities/open space and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Chrestos Mission reported income of £127k and spending of £140k, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £152k to £127k (-17%), an average of -4.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 142%. Over the whole period it spent 94% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Chrestos Mission sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Church of God - London England (World Fellowship) (£127k), Without Walls (£128k) and Parents Association of Maria Konopnicka Polish Saturday Schoolwillesden (£126k).

Income and spending

£0£55k£109k£164k£219k2021 Income: £152,4712021 Spending: £118,78820212022 Income: £90,3872022 Spending: £118,31920222023 Income: £218,6222023 Spending: £142,39420232024 Income: £108,2282024 Spending: £136,80020242025 Income: £127,0192025 Spending: £140,3382025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Chrestos Mission operates principally among refugees of the Karen people in Thailand. It seeks to advance Christianity through missionary work and providing Christian literature and Bible classes, to relieve poverty, suffering and distress in accordance with Christian principles and to advance education by provision of classes in the English language, computer science and other subjects.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Church of God - London England (World Fellowship)London£127k
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Parents Association of Maria Konopnicka Polish Saturday SchoolwillesdenLondon£126k
Market Harborough Baptist ChurchLeicestershire£128k