WESTMINSTER FUND

Registered charity 1071751 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q141191080

Promotion and extension of Christian Science

Objects

(1) THE PROVISION, UPKEEP, INSURANCE, FURNISHING, EQUIPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF PLACES OF WORSHIP, READING ROOMS AND OTHER BUILDINGS USED OR TO BE USED BY CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD; (2) THE MAINTENANCE OF SERVICES PROVIDED FOR CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES; (3) THE PROMOTION OF SPIRITUAL HEALING BY THE SUPPORT OF NURSING SERVICES PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE; (4) THE FURTHERANCE OF THE OTHER RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE WORK OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES; (5) THE PROMOTION OF OTHER RELIGIOUS AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH CHRISTIAN SCIENCE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT; (6) THE PROVISION OF LAND AND BUILDINGS TO BE HELD AS PERMANENT ENDOWMENT OF A CHARITY HAVING OBJECTS WITHIN OBJECTS (1) TO (5) OF THE CHARITY.

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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mole Valley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's reserves and funding are very healthy, with total net assets increasing significantly to £25,332,654 following a substantial donation. The trustees confirm that the charity is able to continue operating on normal lines with no material uncertainties affecting 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 FLB Audit 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2022 (received 21/03/2023, 49 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~43.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTOINETTE GLYNN · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hazel Patterson · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Lardge · trustee of 1 other charity
• Shirley McGrath · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: France · Germany · Scotland · Switzerland · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRUST IN GREAT BRITAIN.

• THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRUST IN GREAT BRITAIN income £437k
• WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN TRUST income £54k
• FOUNT income £89k
• THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY TRUST income £3.1m
• THE WOOSNAM FOUNDATION income £587k
• THE WYNDHAM CHARITABLE TRUST income £124k

Side by side with its peers

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