CHRISTIAN VISION FOR MEN

Registered charity 1071663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT FOR MEN, CVM · also registered in Scotland as SC043446 (OSCR)

PROMOTION OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION - EVANGELISM FOR MEN IN THE UK and promotion / support of the vision in other countries in culturally relevant way.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREIN CALLED "THE DIRECTORS") MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM OR OTHER PARTS OF 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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Chesterfield, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity returned to positive reserves with a net surplus of £28,098 for the year ended 31 October 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Per the trustees' report, operating expenditure was reduced by £67,471 compared to the prior year, while total income decreased by £22,257 due to diminishing donations. The charity maintains unrestricted funds of £11,979 and restricted funds of £16,787, with a reserves policy aimed at retaining sufficient funds to meet commitments if the company ceased to operate.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Stopfords. 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03623498

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CVM (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.

• PRIESTLEY, Benjamin Thomas — director, appointed 11/05/2020on trustee list
• THORPE, Dean Charlton — director, appointed 06/06/2016on trustee list
• DRING, Edward Andrew Kendall — director, appointed 31/05/2012on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/10/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (57% 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: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/09/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Benjamin Thomas Priestley
• Dean Charlton Thorpe · trustee of 2 other charities
• EDWARD ANDREW KENDALL DRING

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

Operates in: Belgium · Brazil · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON JESUS VISION CHURCH CHARITY.

• LONDON JESUS VISION CHURCH CHARITY income £112k
• THE VINE CHRISTIAN TRUST income £94k
• VISION CHURCH LTD income £130k
• Christ Kingdom Evangelical Ministries income £29k
• CHRIST FOR THE WORLD income £422k
• CV EUROPE income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

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