CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY

Registered charity 1131655 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC047163 (OSCR)

Evangelistic mission through: People in Mission,supporting people in cross-cultural mission. Mission Grants,support for key projects and ministries. Pioneer Training,equipping and mobilising Christians. Leadership Formation,Investing in Christian leaders of the future. Mission Interchange,networking and 'mission together' across cultural and linguistic divides.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £8.6m, driven by a property sale, while total expenditure was £8.1m. The charity holds unrestricted free reserves of £3.3m, which exceeds its stated annual target of £3m, indicating a stable financial position.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06985330

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Church Mission Society (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Andy Roberts — CEO (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• ADEFALA, Modupe Oluwatoyin — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• IYIOLA, Olatunji Ayodeji — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• KEHINDE-PETERS, Oluwaseyi Tolulope — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Jonathan Paul — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• WHITAKER, Ruth — director, appointed 01/01/2026on trustee list
• DRAYSON, Nicholas James Quested, Rt Reverend — director, appointed 05/12/2024on trustee list
• MOODEY, Jeremy Michael, Rev — director, appointed 09/10/2024on trustee list
• HEWITT, Sarah Jayne — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• MOY, Richard John, Revd — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• LOUTER, Chloë Sarah — director, appointed 01/01/2022on trustee list
• KEENE, Anne Elisabeth, Dr — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• LAMBERT, Fiona — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• STANSFELD, John Thoburn — director, appointed 01/01/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £278k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Jeremy Michael Moodeychair · trustee of 4 other charities
• Chloe Sarah Louter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Anne Keene
• Fiona Lambert · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Thoburn Stansfeld · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Paul Smith · trustee of 2 other charities
• Modupe Oluwatoyin Adefala · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olatunji Ayodeji Iyiola · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oluwaseyi Tolulope Kehinde-Peters · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Nicholas James Quested Drayson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Richard John Moy · trustee of 3 other charities
• Reverend Sarah Jayne Hewitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruth Whitaker · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Argentina · Bangladesh · Bolivia · Brazil · Bulgaria · Burundi · Chile · China · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Cyprus · Ecuador · Egypt

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Rev Jeremy Michael Moodey — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GREAT CHESHAM

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL.

• CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL income £101k
• MISSIO income £6.5m
• PENTECOSTAL CITY MISSION CHURCH income £398k
• CHRIST DISCIPLES MISSION income £217k
• GRACE BAPTIST MISSION CIO income £1.9m
• CHRIST EVANGELISTIC MINISTRIES income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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