DERBY CITY MISSION LIMITED

Registered charity 1140235 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Derby City Mission runs a number of different social action projects, alongside work to promote unity in the city.

Objects

1)RELIEF OF NEED IN DERBY, DERBYSHIRE AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES BASED ON CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY MEANS INCLUDING THE OFFERING OF DEBT ADVICE, ADVOCACY, AND RE-EDUCATION, WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER AGENCIES, AND SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT, IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE COMMUNITY COHESION.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH PARTNERSHIP, TRAINING AND SUPPORT TO CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN DERBY AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT. WE ADHERE TO THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE STATEMENT OF FAITH (SEE APPENDIX A).

Area of benefit: DERBY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year of £67,641, with free reserves increasing to £313,642. This level exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of 25% of operational expenditure (three months). The trustees acknowledge ongoing uncertainty regarding securing future funding to meet growing needs but confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

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

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Derby City Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Severn Trent — “New Toilets & Showers for Safe Space — Thanks to Severn Trent” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £750k. 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 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (81% 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: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/11/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/04/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alastair Nigel Townchair
• Anna Mann · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Philip Briggs Rev · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Michael Radcliffe
• Emma Milner · trustee of 1 other charity
• HILARY CLAIRE DISNEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Millard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev GRAHAM WATKINS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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

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Side by side with its peers

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