CHRISTADELPHIAN MEAL A DAY FUND

Registered charity 1133337 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

As a practical witness we seek to facilitate personal and community dignity of those in real need in less developed parts of the world by sustainable local projects which: a) help to relieve the effects of hunger disease disability destitution homelessness b) promote agriculture clean water basic health care education c) encourage sharing learning service to others and community development

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SUFFERING, POVERTY AND NEED OF THE INHABITANTS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND FORMER INHABITANTS OF SUCH COUNTRIES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, INTERNATIONALLY.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Gedling, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a significant increase in total funds to £1,399,702, driven largely by an exceptional legacy of £925,000 received during the year. While regular income declined slightly, the trustees concluded that the charity remains a going concern with sufficient cash resources to meet liabilities for at least the next 12 months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Johnson Tidsall Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Investment
• 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)

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06959615

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Christadelphian Meal-a-Day Fund (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• DEAN, Simon Nicholas — director, appointed 26/09/2020on trustee list
• CHURCHILL, Robert James — director, appointed 02/01/2020on trustee list
• BEZANT, Richard — director, appointed 16/11/2019on trustee list
• WALKER, Richard — director, appointed 09/06/2018on trustee list
• DALE, Jeremy Steven — director, appointed 14/01/2018on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Catherine Elizabeth — director, appointed 25/11/2014on trustee list
• LAWRENCE, Philip James — director, appointed 25/11/2014on trustee list
• EAST, Martyn — director, appointed 01/01/2010on trustee list
• FORD, Melanie — director, appointed 11/07/2009on trustee list
• DEAN, Simon Nicholas — secretary, appointed 07/10/2020

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~23.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/10/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeremy Dalechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Elizabeth Lawrence
• MARTYN EAST · trustee of 1 other charity
• MELANIE FORD
• Philip Lawrence
• Richard Bezant
• Richard Walker
• Robert James Churchill
• Simon Nicholas Dean

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

Operates in: Bosnia And Herzegovina · Botswana · Burkina Faso · Burundi · Cameroon · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Eritrea · Eswatini · Ethiopia · Ghana · Greece

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 SHARE A MEAL.

• SHARE A MEAL income £51k
• THE CHRISTADELPHIAN SAMARITAN FUND income £78k
• CHARITY MEALS income £1.6m
• CHARITY RIGHT income £3.0m
• DELAMERE DAIRY FOUNDATION income £294k
• CHRISTCHURCH (METHODIST / CHURCH OF ENGLAND ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP) CLEVEDON income £229k

Side by side with its peers

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