JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY

Registered charity 1137613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as JESMOND URC

Jesmond United Reformed Church Charity conducts religious activities for the benefit of the general public/mankind. It provides buildings, facilities and open space for church and community use. It provides pastoral care to the community, and makes grants to organisations for the benefit of the community.

Objects

The object of the Charity is the advancement of the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in accordance with the Scheme 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 the charity generated a surplus of £22,172 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total receipts of £184,492 against payments of £162,320. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £264,004, which exceeds its stated policy target of £86,616 (covering six months of running costs and redundancy payments). The filing confirms the charity remains compliant with its reserves policy and approaches the future with healthy reserves and sound facilities.

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 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Ryan Sirmonschair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr ALISON ISABEL SHIEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jean Degenhardt · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Newcastle Upon Tyne City · North Tyneside

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHINGFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY.

• CHINGFORD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £118k
• JESMOND UNITED REFORMED CHURCH - TRUST FUNDS AND PROPERTY HELD IN CONNEXION THEREWITH - income £37k
• TAUNTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £124k
• THE JESMOND TRUST income £1.7m
• HESWALL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £93k
• SHREWSBURY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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