BIRMINGHAM CITY MISSION

Registered charity 1051023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity's primary activity is the spreading of the Christian message throughout the West Midlands. In pursuing this aim, the Charity also responds to people in need, of all ages.

Objects

1.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 2.THE RELIEF OF POOR,SICK OR AGED PERSONS.

Area of benefit: BIRMINGHAM & MIDLAND COUNTIES OF THE UK OR SUCH OTHER TOWN, CITY, DISTRICT OR REGION, EITHER WITHIN OR OUTSIDE OF THE UK AS THE DIRECTORS MAY THINK NECESSARY

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 · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net deficit of £11,304 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a surplus in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains sufficient unrestricted reserves of £556,033 to meet its policy target of approximately six months of operation (£500,000), allowing it to continue full operations while seeking additional funding sources.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. 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
• 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
• 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.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• A place of grace: Birmingham City Mission helps in the fight against homelessness evangelical-times.org · 20/01/2026

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £37k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~14.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW NOBLE
• David Holmes
• James Herbert
• Rev STUART CONWAY CARTER · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON DAVID LOESCHER

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY CHURCH ( CAMBRIDGE ).

• CITY CHURCH ( CAMBRIDGE ) income £657k
• THE BIRMINGHAM SETTLEMENT income £2.4m
• CITY CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £535k
• BANBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £245k
• BICESTER CHRISTIAN ACTION LIMITED income £210k
• THE LORD MAYOR OF BIRMINGHAM'S CHARITY income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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