COVENTRY CITY MISSION

Registered charity 1090102 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

General Charitable PurposesEducation/TrainingRelief of PovertyReligious activities

Objects

1) THE PROCLAMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND MIDLANDS COUNTIES.2) TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND ALLEVIATE HARDSHIP THROUGH THE RECYCLING AND REFURBISHMENT OF FURNITURE, EQUIPMENT AND FURNISHINGS TO THE BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND MIDLAND COUNTIES.3) TO ADVANCE, TRAIN, EDUCATE AND RELIEVE POVERTY AMONG YOUNG AND OTHER UNEMPLOYED INHABITANTS AND PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES AND LEARNING DIFFICULTIES IN THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND MIDLAND COUNTIES THROUGH SUCH TRAINING FACILITIES AND WILL ENABLE SUCH PERSONS AS AFORESAID TO ACQUIRE AND DEVELOP VOCATIONAL SKILLS AND SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES.

Area of benefit: THE CITY OF COVENTRY AND MIDLAND COUNTIES.

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net deficit of £15,328 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £144,539 and total expenditure of £159,867. Despite the deficit, unrestricted reserves stood at £157,237, which the trustees assess as being at a satisfactory level and above their policy target of six months' unrestricted expenditure. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than an audit, with the examiner reporting no material matters requiring attention.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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)

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Coventry City Mission (matched by registered charity number).

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Mary Martin
• John Roland Corden
• Peter Ivers · trustee of 1 other charity
• susan elizabeth Davis

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JOINT COUNCIL OF THE BRIDGE BENEFICE, COVENTRY.

• THE JOINT COUNCIL OF THE BRIDGE BENEFICE, COVENTRY income £316k
• CLOTHING COVENTRY income £193k
• CITYGATE income £44k
• CO-MISSIONUK income £42k
• CHRISTIANS TOGETHER IN MISSION income £33k
• COVENANT LOVE PEOPLE income £216k

Side by side with its peers

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