BLACK COUNTRY URBAN INDUSTRIAL MISSION

Registered charity 1110745 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCUIM

The Black Country Urban Industrial mission has the following strategic objectsives;We seek to bring values of the Kingdom to everyday life by:1 being alongside people at work;2 promoting faith for work3 empowering and transforming urban communities

Objects

OBJECTSTHE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE: THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY MINISTERING TO INDIVIDUALS IN BOTH INDUSTRIAL ANDURBAN ENVIRONMENTS THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING THROUGH INITIATINGSUPPORTING AND JOINING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH REGENERATION PROJECTS AND PROGRAMMES;BUILDING CAPACITY SUPPORT AND HELP FOR THOSE IN NEED OF TRAINING FOR EMPLOYMENT ANDTRAINING IN BUSINESS THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISION AND SUPPORT OF INFORMATION ANDTRAINING SCHEMESPARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA KNOWN AS THE BLACKCOUNTRY COMPRISING THE CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE BOROUGHS OF DUDLEY,SANDWELL AND WALSALL (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH OF THECHARITY AS SET OUT IN SCHEDULE ONE OF THIS MEMORANDUM AND ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITHTHE AIMS OF THE CHARITY AS SET OUT IN SCHEDULE TWO OF THIS MEMORANDUM.

Area of benefit: THE BLACK COUNTRY COMPRISING OF THE CITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON AND THE BOROUGHS OF DUDLEY, SANDWELL AND WALSALL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operating deficit of £3,477 for the year ended 31 March 2025, an improvement from the previous year's deficit of £7,358. Total unrestricted funds decreased to £44,112 from £47,589, while the trustees maintain a reserves policy target of approximately twelve months of normal unrestricted charitable income. The charity relies on volunteers and seconded ministers rather than directly employed staff, with no pension scheme operated.

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
• 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thomas Russellchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Edward Wooldridge Green
• REV ADRIAN STUART ARGILE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Timothy Westwood
• STEPHEN L BROOKS

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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Shared trustees with funders

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• REV ADRIAN STUART ARGILE — trustee here and at THE HEART OF ENGLAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT.

• BLACKFRIARS SETTLEMENT income £681k
• BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY SERVICE income £1.1m
• THE BLACK COUNTRY NET income £129k
• BLACK COUNTRY MENTAL HEALTH income £106k
• CHURCH URBAN FUND income £3.0m
• BLACKBURN COMMUNITY CHURCH income £55k

Side by side with its peers

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