PIONEERS UK MINISTRIES

Registered charity 1037154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q56033663 · also known as ACTION PARTNERS, ACTION PARTNERS - PIONEERS, ACTION PARTNERS MINISTRIES, PIONEERS UK · filing overdue (register status)

Advancement of the Christian Religion in Africa and the WorldRelief of persons in need (regardless of their religion or ethnic origin) in Africa and the WorldTo support, teach, instruct and otherwise encourage those in the Christian faith and those who profess to be committed Christians in Africa and the World

Objects

(A)TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE GREATER SUDAN ("THE SAHEL"), ELSEWHERE IN AFRICA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD (IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE "DOCTRINAL BASIS") (B)TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN NEED (REGARDLESS OF THEIR RELIGION OR ETHNIC ORIGIN) LIVING IN THE SAHEL, ELSEWHERE IN AFRICA AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE AND THEREBY DEMONSTRATING THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST.

Area of benefit: AFRICA AND WORLDWIDE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Doncaster, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net surplus of £1,985,796, driven largely by the transfer of assets from a merged entity. Unrestricted reserves stood at £1,915,953, which is above the stated policy target of maintaining available reserves of over £350,000. The trustees confirmed the charity remains in a sound financial position with adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wright Vigar Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 25/02/2026, 117 days after the 31/10/2025 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02917955 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Pioneers UK Ministries (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LAWRENCE, Helen Margaret — director, appointed 20/06/2026on trustee list
• BUTLER, Karl Oscar Johan — director, appointed 07/04/2025on trustee list
• MATEER, Robert Alexander — director, appointed 07/04/2025on trustee list
• MAGGS, Elizabeth Rosemary — director, appointed 07/04/2025on trustee list
• MCCONKEY, Katherine Joyce, Dr — director, appointed 07/11/2015not on trustee list
• JENKINS, Steven David, Dr — director, appointed 30/04/2015not on trustee list
• MADDOCK, Peter John — director, appointed 08/10/2005on trustee list
• HICKSON, Julie Ruth, Dr — director, appointed 12/10/2002on trustee list
• MADDOCK, Peter — secretary, appointed 12/08/2019

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £599k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~6.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr JULIE RUTH HICKSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Elizabeth Rosemary Maggs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Margaret Lawrence
• Henrika Evelyne Kock
• Karl Oscar Johan Butler
• Katy McConkey · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil O'Boyle · trustee of 1 other charity
• PETER JOHN MADDOCK · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev David Cameron Meredith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Alexander Mateer · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEVE JENKINS · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Birmingham City · Bradford City · Burkina Faso · Cambodia · Cameroon · Cardiff · Cheshire East · China · Colombia · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Croatia · Ethiopia

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PIONEER MISSION.

• PIONEER MISSION income £208k
• ACHIEVERS FAITH INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £57k
• PIONEER TRUST income £370k
• UNIVERSAL PRAYER GROUP MINISTRY income £2.0m
• LIGONIER MINISTRIES UK income £81k
• INTERNATIONAL PRAISE CENTRE income £762k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.