THE GEORGE MULLER CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1066832 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MULLER TRUST FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, MULLERS, THE GEORGE MULLER FOUNDATION, THE MULLER HOMES FOR CHILDREN

Provision for children, families and young people through resourcing churches and other organizations, and by supporting Christian workers worldwide especially those involved therein as well as the care of orphans, education and literature distribution. Maintaining our unique heritage of supporting children. Grants may be made only where partnership exists and not for unsolicited requests.

Objects

(1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION(2) TO ADVANCE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH AND IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH HOLY SCRIPTURE, INCLUDING, INSOFAR AS THE MEANS ARE AVAILABLE AT ANY TIME, THOUGH THE SUPPORT OF CHRISTIAN WORKERS AND ORGANISATIONS(3) TO ADVANCE CITIZENSHIP OR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY AMONG CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE ELDERLY(4) TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE OR HUMAN SUFFERING, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE DEPRIVED OF NORMAL PARENTAL CARE.

Area of benefit: ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDON OR THE WORLD

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total funds of £15,075,378, with unrestricted general reserves of £297,647. The trustees consider this level of free reserves to be prudent, representing approximately 4.5 months of expenditure within their stated target range of 3-6 months. The charity notes that its long-term future is dependent on ongoing donations and investment income, but the auditors have confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Western Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Joel Preston — Charity Leader (source)
• Cat Willcox — Deputy Charity Leader (Operations) (source)
• Derek Powell — Chair (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £1.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 28/02/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (69% 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: 1.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DEREK JAMES POWELLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Evan Vavasor Botwood
• Eveline Saris
• Jonathan Francis Farr Squire
• Kathryn Louise Rogers
• Liz Small
• Trevor John Grant

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

Operates in: Albania · Burundi · Cambodia · Canada · Egypt · France · Germany · Ghana · India · Israel · Ivory Coast · Kenya

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MILL GROVE CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• MILL GROVE CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE TRUST income £486k
• GOWLING WLG (UK) CHARITABLE TRUST income £164k
• MILLES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LIMITED income £587k
• THE GORDON FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST income £12k
• MANOR COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTRE LIMITED income £433k
• THE GRANT BRADLEY CHARITABLE TRUST income £361k

Side by side with its peers

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