FRANCE MISSION

Registered charity 1176433 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

France Mission provides news and prayer information about the religious situation in France. We enable British Christians to connect with French evangelical churches and also with opportunities for Christian service in France. We provide financial support to a number of workers in French evangelical churches and also to Christian projects providing community services in France.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £421,345 against total expenditure of £471,621, resulting in a net deficit of £50,276 for the year. Per the trustees' report, the charity's finances were in a healthy state with net assets of £222,298, held in bank accounts protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. The trustees confirmed that the financial affairs are sound and on a going concern basis.

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.

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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: 4.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Paul Martin Dowlingchair
• Ann Nixon
• Annick Wyndham Brusby
• Brian George Carson
• Helen Antelo
• Marjorie Wallace Dowling
• Michael Hugh Nixon

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

Operates in: France · Northern Ireland · Scotland · 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 THE FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH OF LONDON.

• THE FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH OF LONDON income £197k
• MISSIO income £6.5m
• THE LONDON CITY MISSION income £8.4m
• CHURCH MISSION SOCIETY income £8.3m
• GRACE BAPTIST MISSION CIO income £1.9m
• THE GREAT MISSION income £534k

Side by side with its peers

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