HUDDERSFIELD MISSION

Registered charity 1156590 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing services for people in need, such as food, shelter, advice, support and developmental activities.Offering a town centre community facility, with space for meetings, classes and rooms for rent.Facilitating dialogue between different groups in Kirklees and enabling vulnerable and marginalised people to be heard.Hosting faith-based groups for worship and sharing.

Objects

(A) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY;(B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION;(C) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES OF THE METHODIST CHURCH; AND(E) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED, BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kirklees, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net unrestricted expenditure of £42,343 against total incoming resources of £546,702, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £314,171. However, the trustees state that free unrestricted reserves of £163,557 are below their stated policy target of six months' running costs (£243,000), and they plan to increase reserves during the current financial year. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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 — Huddersfield Mission (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (64% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Peter Catfordchair
• Ali Kaye
• Christopher Mason
• Martyn Till
• Rev Richard Thompson
• Rev Sue Taylor
• Steve William Caddy

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

Operates in: Kirklees

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• HUDDERSFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £2.5m
• THE HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY income £32k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN, LINDLEY, HUDDERSFIELD income £128k
• THE WELCOME CENTRE (HUDDERSFIELD) income £900k
• HUDDERSFIELD TOWN FOUNDATION income £1.1m
• THE HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY income £302k

Side by side with its peers

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