CHRISTIAN MISSIONS CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1074607 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C.M.C.T., COMPASSION IN ACTION

Prime objects are uplifting the poorest in Chennai by medical, dental, orphanage, hostel, handicraft centre, education, wheelchair distribution, self help training in a leprosy settlement, providing rations on regular basis where needed. Social work among street children. The spread of the Christian gospel and the nurturing of the Christian faith are all integral to all these activities.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN INDIA OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT (B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK OR WHO ARE HOMELESS IN INDIA OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IN INDIA OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT (D) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN INDIA OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: INDIA OR ELSEWHERE

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 · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Huntingdonshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £7,644 for the year, increasing total unrestricted funds to £51,216. The accounts state that there are no material uncertainties about the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity's reserves policy indicates that the trustees do not consider it necessary to maintain a significant level of reserves.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

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 31/01/2023 (received 06/12/2023, 6 days after the 30/11/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CMCT (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2026)

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 (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Robert Dunning
• COLIN SHORT · trustee of 1 other charity
• DEREK FORD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Barry Francis Trewinnard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Karen Rosemary Trewinnard
• Gabriel Bennett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Giles Carpenter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ian James McCorkell

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

Operates in: India

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN RESTORATION MANCHESTER.

• CHRISTIAN RESTORATION MANCHESTER income £79k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MISSION income £63k
• THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN MISSION CCM income £79k
• THE BRANCHES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £54k
• CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY income £8.3m
• CHRISTIAN RESTORATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £178k

Side by side with its peers

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