CHRISTIAN MEDICAL FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1131658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4304979 · Wikipedia

Christian Medical Fellowship is an association of over 4,000 Christian doctors in the UK and Republic of Ireland in all branches of medicine, and over 1000 student members. It took over the activities of registered charity 1039823 on 1 Jan 2010. We are linked with around 60 similar inter-denominational bodies worldwide through the International Christian Medical and Dental Association (ICMDA).

Objects

3.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH INCLUDING THE PROMOTION OF BIBLICAL CHRISTIANBELIEFS AND VALUES WORLD-WIDE3.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION WORLD-WIDE3.3. THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, POVERTY AND DISTRESS WORLD-WIDETHE OBJECTS TO BE CARRIED OUT AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE BIBLICAL TRUTHS SET OUT IN CLAUSE 5 HEREOF)

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £1,666,322 from £2,324,676 in the prior year, while operating expenditure increased slightly to £1,638,295. The charity reported a net income of £28,027 and held free reserves of £189,594, which the trustees note are below the stated policy target range of £582,650 to £602,650.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £70,001 - £80,000 (FY2024) to £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 3 (FY2025).

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

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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (18/05/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Rackham
• David Evans
• Dr Alice Smith
• Dr Euan McRorie
• Dr Matthew Baines
• Dr Michael Trimble
• Dr Nicholas Charles Lipscomb
• Dr Paula Busuulwa
• Howard Lyons · trustee of 1 other charity
• Katherine Aiken
• Ovril Tomlinson
• Stefanie McRoy
• Timothy James

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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 THE LAWYERS' CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• THE LAWYERS' CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £298k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MEDICAL AND DENTAL ASSOCIATION (UK) CIO income £1.9m
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL income £191k
• THE CHRISTIAN DENTAL FELLOWSHIP income £77k
• NEW DIRECTION CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £74k

Side by side with its peers

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