THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST PAUL

Registered charity 1107997 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF ST PAUL OF NIGERIA

Missionary Activities

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £616,535 to £791,862, driven by a net income surplus of £175,327 against total incoming resources of £786,530. The charity holds a freehold property valued at £325,000 and maintains cash reserves of £564,905, with minimal current liabilities of £98,043. While the filing notes a dependency on satisfactory funding arrangements for future activities, the current financial position shows a surplus and adequate resources.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~15.5 months of spending — in the top 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: 77.7% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Mark Ehichioya Odion MSPchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eamonn James Doran
• Ejiro Robert Ughwujabo
• Hope Egunjobi Mrs
• Jane Lee Hodgson
• Juliet Imuetinyan Olasiyan
• Macdonald Okolie
• Rev David Anthony Gibbons
• Rev Livinus Onyebuchi MSP
• Rev Michael Faneye
• Rev Noel Ugoagwu MSP

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

Operates in: Botswana · Cameroon · Canada · Central African Republic · Chad · Ireland · Italy · Kenya · Liberia · Malawi · Nigeria · South Africa

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE.

• THE SOCIETY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE income £1.7m
• DANBURY MISSION CHURCH income £2.0m
• CHARITY FOR ST JOSEPH'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BRITISH REGION) income £2.2m
• SISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST PAUL THE APOSTLE income £5.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PHILEMON TOXTETH income £173k
• UFM WORLDWIDE income £4.8m

Side by side with its peers

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