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2023-06-30-accounts

CHRISTIANS FOR IMPACT TRUSTEE’S ANNUAL REPORT For the period 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2023

Reference and administration details:

Christians for Impact, Working as: Effective Altruism for Christians

Registered charity number 1195605

Windyridge Scotts Grove Road Chobham WOKING GU24 8DX

Trustees:

Alexander Rattee Grayden Reece-Smith Waithera Mwangi

STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

Type of governing document: Constitution

How the charity is constituted: Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO)

Trustee selection methods

The Trustee Board is responsible for appointing new trustees subject to requirements set out in the Charity’s governing documents. Potential new trustees are assessed on the basis of their experience, skills and motivation, as well as the Trustee Board’s own assessment of its gaps and the skills required to deliver the Charity’s strategy. This is primarily assessed through a candidate’s CV and meeting with one or more of the existing trustees.

Additional governance protections

Christians for Impact has a conflict of interests policy. This policy and the associated register is reviewed at least annually.

Christians for Impact works closely with its USA counterpart, Christians for Impact USA, Inc., a registered (501(c)(3) organisation in the USA, EIN: 87-3363768), in ways that further its own charitable objectives.

OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY

The objects of Christians for Impact are:

  1. For the public benefit, the advancement of the Christian religion, in particular the promotion of the Christian Principles of effective altruism by:

  2. a. Promoting and conducting research for the public benefit in all aspects of effective altruism, including ethical career choices, and to publish the useful results;

  3. b. Raising awareness of effective altruism and how to incorporate it into Christian life and faith; and encouraging fellowship with others on a similar journey;

  4. c. Carrying out religious devotional acts.

  5. For the public benefit, to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of charities and organisations whose purposes are charitable in direct pursuit of their objects, including by:

  6. a. providing training, conferences, seminars and resources on effective altruism, what effectiveness looks like and how to improve it;

  7. b. advising on and assessing the administration of charities to provide support with the measurement, improvement and communication of their impact;

  8. c. advising and educating on fundraising and planned giving for charitable purposes;

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ACTIVITIES AND OBJECTS

Background to understanding the activities carried out by Christians for Impact

Christians For Impact’s activities from 1st July 2022 to 30th June 2023 can be split into three categories:

1. UK Community Building

UK community building can be broken up between educational retreats, our conference, 1-on-1 conversations, and other speaking events. Notable events include:

2. Websites and social media

In addition to the website www.eaforchristians.org, the charity managed a new website www.christiansforimpact.org. The charity expanded its Facebook group, and launched a blog called “Christ and the Counterfactuals”, and continued its monthly community newsletter.

3. Online Events and Videos

Christians for Impact ran an online four-week Intro Course. This allowed for an accessible introduction to the effective altruism principles and the Christians for Impact community. conference events.

A commitment to creating a public benefit

All decisions taken by Trustees were taken solely with concern to creating benefits for the eventual beneficiaries, and any benefit to the immediate community was incidental to achieving this aim.

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Beneficiaries

When considering the projects undertaken it is helpful to distinguish between the immediate community and the eventual beneficiaries:

  1. The immediate community are Christians in the UK and globally whom we support, encourage and inspire to give of their time, skills and money to charitable purposes, and to have concern for the efficiency and effectiveness of those contributions.

  2. The eventual beneficiaries are the people who benefit from the contributions of time, skill and money. They represent as diverse a group as charitable causes cover, including, but not limited, to people living in poverty in developing countries, future generations, who might be impacted by climate change, or abused animals.

For example, Christians for Impact ran online and in-person events on effective giving for the immediate community. Members received talks from speakers with experience of making large donations and had a chance to discuss among each other their giving plans, such as during the “ Effective Giving Meetup ” at the London conference. The aim of these events was to encourage guests to increase the size and effectiveness of their donations for the benefit of the eventual beneficiaries.

Activities

The 2022-2023 fiscal year involved more in-person events than 2021-2022, as the community was rebuilding after the slowdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Here is an overview of our key activities, including ones carried out by Christians for Impact USA, inc:

Area Activities Team
time
allocation
Community
Building		 ●
An
in-person
London
conference
around
effective giving and impactful careers.
●
A retreat in Cambridge in October 2022
●
An in person group meet-ups of the Christians
for Impact community at the Effective Altruism
Global conferences (e.g. EAG London May
2023)		 20%
Research &
Resources		 ●
Maintaining the Substack and developing its
research agenda
●
Producing
podcast
episodes
on
impactful
careers with Christian experts
●
Writing
and
editing
of
a
book aimed at
popularising the ideas of Christians for Impact		 20%
Communications ●
Developing and maintaining the community
monthly newsletter
●
Maintaining
the
community
Slack
and
facebook group.
●
Uploading videos onto the Effective Altruism
for Christian YouTube channel
●
Promoting events, both those organised by		 15%

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Christians for Impact and those organised by
third parties
●
Linking to articles promoting charitable giving,
choosing effective charities and ethical career
choices
Outreach ●
Academic outreach advertising the academic
workshop
in
April
2022
and
promoting
research on the intersection of Christianity
and effective altruism ideas
●
Building partnerships with Christian student
groups across the UK, especially the Just
Love campaign
●
A 4-week online free introductory course to
effective altruism and Christianity		 10%
One-to-one
coaching		 ●
One-to-one
chats
with
Christians
at
the
Effective Altruism Global conferences focused
on faith, effective giving and impactful career
choice
●
Online
or
in-person chats about effective
giving, ideas related to effective altruism, or
high-impact careers.		 15%
Strategy
development,
impact
measurement and
administration		 ●
The
Charity’s
trustees
and
volunteers
invested time into developing a strategy to
maximise the Charity’s impact.
●
The outputs of the strategy for the 2022-2023
fiscal
year
can
be
found
below
in
the
“Achievements and Performance” section.		 20%

Note: Split is based on a rough post-hoc estimate of staff and volunteer time.

Additional details of objectives and activities

Contribution made by volunteers

The Charity benefits from significant contributions of time by approximately 20 individuals, including trustees. The Charity also encourages individuals to contribute time to other charities and projects if it is likely they will have more impact that way.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERFORMANCE

UK Community Building

The first UK retreat gathered 16 young Christian professionals from across the UK and included expert talks, e.g. “Effective altruism for Christians in practice”, “Why Christians should care about the emerging technologies.”

Our two outreach specialists in the UK report had combined over 26 1-on-1 conversations with individuals about effective altruism and high-impact charity.

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The London community grew in comparison to the previous fiscal year (~20 more signups to the local group chat). Similarly, the community Slack grew by over 60 members.

Christians for Impact Conferences

The conference received 135 sign-ups. It hosted 63 in-person participants, 17 guest speakers, and many more online. The average rating of the conference was 9 out of 10.

The satellite academic workshop received 44 sign-ups, gathered 22 attendees on the day, including 5 presenters discussing their research on the topic.

Online Events and Videos

The Intro Course ran five times with an average of about 3 people per group.

Christians for Impact Social Media

The YouTube channel grew in content, featuring all videos from the London conference and the academic workshop.

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The Substack blog expanded (by over 25 articles).
Total visits to the Effective Altruism for Christians website decreased:
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However, total visits to the Christians for Impact website rose significantly:

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Christians For Impact Outreach and Mentorship

The project was announced at the 2023 London conference and there have been 9 podcast episodes published on the Christians for Impact website, alongside blog posts, podcast transcriptions and problem profiles with career recommendations. The podcast is also available on Spotify.

There were additional community benefits, which were supported by both the organisation and its US counterpart, which are detailed our “Our Impact” page at our website: www.eaforchristians.org/our-impact.

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Note on reserves

Christians for Impact aims to hold enough reserves for between 2 and 4 months of expenditure, in accordance with our finance policy.

As of 30 June 2023, the charity had an unrestricted cash balance of £3,495, which was sufficient reserves for more than 4 months of expenditure.

Note on contractor payments

We had one contractor doing work primarily for the benefit of CFI UK who also was not paid from the charity directly, but rather from Christians for Impact USA, inc. This contractor completed projects that averaged around 5 hours of work per week and was paid a total of £6,551 between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023.

Funds materially in deficit

No funds materially in deficit.

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Further financial review details regarding fundraising

We did not engage in fundraising, though we did receive a £4,000 grant from Christians for Impact, USA inc.

Further financial review details regarding fundraising

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees:

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