GLOUCESTER CITY MISSION

Registered charity 1115780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gloucester City Mission seeks to give practical help to rough sleepers, the homeless, those who are vulnerable or marginalised members of the local community. It is an alliance of Christians working together to share the love of Christ in Gloucester through witness in the neighbourhood and on the streets.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ON AN INTER-DENOMINATIONAL BASIS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREIN CALLED "THE TRUSTEES") MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY;2) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £20,907 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £305,486 and total expenditure of £284,579. Unrestricted reserves stood at £171,108, which the trustees consider equivalent to over four months of expenditure, falling within their stated policy target of three to six months. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05830147

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MATHER, Elaine Joan — director, appointed 05/09/2025on trustee list
• HARPER, Karoline Anne — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• GLEICH, Nicholas Philip, Reverend — director, appointed 14/06/2018on trustee list
• WALLACE, David Euan — director, appointed 01/06/2018on trustee list
• BENNETT, Oliver Paul — director, appointed 25/07/2016on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Margaret — director, appointed 01/10/2009on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Margaret — secretary, appointed 22/06/2017

Official officers record.

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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev NICHOLAS PHILIP GLEICHchair
• DAVID EUAN WALLACE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Duncan Maclean
• Elaine Joan Mather
• Karoline Anne Harper
• Margaret Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
• OLIVER PAUL BENNETT

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

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• Margaret Edwards — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HUCCLECOTE, ST PHILIP AND ST JAMES

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY CHURCH GLOUCESTER.

• CITY CHURCH GLOUCESTER income £151k
• THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOCIETY income £160k
• EMMAUS GLOUCESTERSHIRE income £1.2m
• ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF GLOUCESTER income £67k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH NORTH EAST LONDON GOSPEL MISSION income £72k
• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k

Side by side with its peers

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