The Ugly Duckling Charity

Registered charity 1173156 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UGLY DUCKLING COMPANY

UDC is a Christian organisation that creates resources that can be used by people of all ages to explore life in all its fullness. We equip people in numerous contexts to have life changing conversations and explore the foundations of living life well; supporting them to look after their well-being (body, mind and soul) and to find purpose and meaning in life.

Objects

To advance the Christian religion by practically demonstrating the Christian faith, in particular, but not exclusively, through the development of resources that equip people to explore faith, spirituality and wellbeing.

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

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Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £24,904, with unrestricted reserves of £23,904, which the trustees confirm meets their policy of holding at least three months of operating reserves. The charity reported a net surplus of £9,848 and remains confident in its viability despite ongoing financial pressures from reduced grant funding.

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
• 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
• 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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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev DAVID MARC OWENchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• GRAHAM ALEXANDER MCGILL · trustee of 3 other charities
• Keith Howick · trustee of 4 other charities
• Matthew Way
• Rev Timothy Bernard Welch

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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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 SUDC-UK.

• SUDC-UK income £611k
• THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD income £15.4m
• DORRIDGE U3A income £44k
• THE UDLINGTON TRUST income £312k
• AUDACIOUS CHURCH income £4.7m
• THE REFUGE CHURCH, UK income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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