UNION CHAPEL PROJECT
Registered charity 1010166 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register
Union Chapel is an independent secular charity operating within the church building. It has a dual charitable remit to restore the building and to open it up to arts, community and heritage interest. We also run a in house centre called Margins, offering hot meals, winter shelter and advice to people on the margins of society.
Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated surplus of £336,917 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 35% to £2,537,604. Per the trustees' report, net unrestricted reserves stood at £1,166,716, though the reserves policy target of six months' unavoidable costs is expected to fall below temporarily due to major capital projects. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the group's ability to continue as a going concern.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Reserves policy: six months' unavoidable unrestricted cost (held: £1.2m)
“Our reserves policy is based on holding six months' unavoidable unrestricted cost of the charitable entities.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: Union Chapel Directions Limited
“Union Chapel Directions Limited (UCO) is a trading subsidiary of UCP” — page 15
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Goodman Jones LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Gordon Montgomery — Director (source)
- Leslie Saville — Director (source)
- Ken Beech — Director (source)
- Kathryn Dixon — Interim Managing Director (source)
- Rev. Cathy Bird — Minister (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£117k
Reported reserves equal ~2.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (51% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Islington
Income and spending
Common questions
Is UNION CHAPEL PROJECT financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a consolidated surplus of £336,917 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income increasing by 35% to £2,537,604. Per the trustees' report, net unrestricted reserves stood at £1,166,716, though the reserves policy target of six months' unavoidable costs is expected to fall below temporarily due to major capital projects. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the group's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Goodman Jones LLP.
Who funds UNION CHAPEL PROJECT?
Funders whose own accounts filings name UNION CHAPEL PROJECT as a grant recipient include THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH MUSIC, UNION CHAPEL, DR RADCLIFFE'S TRUST, THE ROSE FOUNDATION, CHAPMAN CHARITABLE TRUST.
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