THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ( NORTHERN PROVINCE) TRUST LTD.

Registered charity 1132154 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity supports local United Reformed Churches in N E England in their outreach and mission by the provision of financial, advisory and technical support.We also support the URC's regional objectives of Christian discipleship, mission, building partnerships and managing property.Grants are made to churches and individuals in support of those objectives.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES AND USAGES AND THE BASIS OF UNION OF THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds rose by £915,748 in the year, driven by a surplus on ordinary activities of £1,536,877, which was partially offset by a net loss on investments of £621,129. Free reserves stood at £13,166,774, which the Directors report is above their target range, providing a buffer against ongoing uncertainty around investment performance and global market conditions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Revd Kim Money — Synod Moderator (source)
• Gordon Wanless — Synod Treasurer (source)
• Lisa McAvoy — Synod Clerk (Admin & Governance) (source)
• Lucy Cooke — Synod Clerk (Strategy & Development) (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

88 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (82 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. 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 ~74.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (88% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anne Catherine Bartle
• CAROL HOGG
• Charles Andrew Randle
• Clive Lawrence Davies
• Dr Andrew Russell Graydon · trustee of 1 other charity
• GORDON IAN WANLESS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeffrey Ledger
• Rev Kenneth Philip Gray
• WILLIAM DUNCAN

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE) TRUST LIMITED.

• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE) TRUST LIMITED income £760k
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (YORKSHIRE PROVINCE) TRUST LTD income £1.2m
• UNITED REFORMED CHURCH TRUST income £24.4m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WESSEX) TRUST LIMITED income £7.8m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (EASTERN PROVINCE) TRUST income £3.9m
• NEWPORT PAGNELL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £166k

Side by side with its peers

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