THE CINNAMON NETWORK

Registered charity 1156985 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC047733 (OSCR)

Cinnamon Network works closely with churches across the UK and Ireland to help them transform their communities.We describe ourselves as faith-based but not faith-biased. We serve people of all faiths and none.Our work revolves around three key objectives - incubation, influence and impact.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT 3.1 TO PROMOTE THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF CHARITABLE ORGANISATIONS BY: SEEKING TO BUILD THE CAPACITY OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY THROUGH THE FACILITATION OF NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES AND THE AWARENESS OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECTS THAT SUPPORTS THOSE IN CHARITABLE NEED; PROMOTING THE EFFECTIVE USE OF THEIR RESOURCES; AND THE PROVISION OF GRANT FUNDING TO FACILITATE CHURCHES AND CHARITIES IN EFFECTING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION. 3.2 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT. 3.3. NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005.

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

Causes: Education/training · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves were £58,371, which falls within the trustees' stated policy target range of £52,000 to £70,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £33,221 for the year, with total income of £380,162 against total expenditure of £346,941.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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: 16.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTIN WARNERchair
• Darren Mitchell
• Jillian Marion Morrison
• Rev Colin Marsh · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 THE NETWORK CHURCH.

• THE NETWORK CHURCH income £115k
• CHELTENHAM NETWORK CHURCH income £79k
• THE CINNAMON TRUST income £8.7m
• TRANSITION NETWORK income £1.0m
• DMI NETWORK income £10.1m
• THE PERSIMMON CHARITABLE FOUNDATION income £462k

Side by side with its peers

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