SMETHURST MINISTRIES TRUST

Registered charity 1043713 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Mercy missions to the poor and orphans in Europe and needy communities around the United Kingdom. Medicines, blankets, shoes and warm clothing are sent into Europe, Eastern Europe and Ukraine to needy families and orphanages. Seminars to help families in the UK in home relationships, marriage breakdowns and needy children. Seminars to equip counsellors to help others in crisis.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY THE PROCLAMATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD, CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE WORD IN GREAT BRITAIN, IRELAND, EUROPE AND SUCH OTHER PLACES AS SHALL BE DECIDED UPON BY THE TRUSTEES CONSISTENTLY WITH THE DOCTRINE AND ARTICLES OF BELIEF SET FORTH IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £6,073.70 for the year ended 31st March 2026, reducing its net assets from £26,223.75 to £20,150.05. Free reserves, represented by cash at bank, stood at £22,646.47, which exceeds the net asset position due to outstanding credit card liabilities. The filing does not disclose a reserves policy target or any specific financial health warnings.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Smethurst Ministries Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Smethurstchair
• PAUL DEREK WHITTLES
• PETER HOLDEN WALLACE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of London · East Sussex · Germany · Hertfordshire · Kent · Latvia · Norway · Ukraine

Income and spending

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