GREATER EUROPE MISSION UK

Registered charity 1162468 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GEM UK

1. Support for GEM missionaries from overseas working in the UK2. Mobilisation, training and support of UK nationals seeking to work as missionaries in Europe

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH, MAINLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY MEANS OF:-I. BROADCASTING MESSAGES OF AN EVANGELISTIC AND TEACHING NATURE;II. HOLDING PRAYER PRAYERS;III. PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS; ANDIV. PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Lanarkshire, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £28,434 for the year ended 30 June 2025, driven by unrestricted funds which had a deficit of £23,000. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves fell to £76,102, which is below the stated policy target of approximately £90k, prompting the implementation of staff support-raising targets from January 2026 to reduce future deficits.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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

• John Rhodeschair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dani Keith
• Emma Elizabeth Wilson
• John Charles McGinley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jon Burns
• Rachelle Neal
• Rev JEREMY ANDREW DEARING

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP.

• EUROPEAN MISSIONARY FELLOWSHIP income £1.3m
• EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN MISSION (BRITAIN) income £1.1m
• EURO CHARITY TRUST income £2.4m
• MERCY MISSION UK income £9.3m
• GREATER TOGETHER MANCHESTER income £432k
• CGD EUROPE income £7.1m

Side by side with its peers

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