WELCOME CHURCHES

Registered charity 1177344 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Educate churches and other partners about the need to welcome and support refugees and asylum seekers arriving in their communities.Provide training, resources and ongoing support churches to effectively welcome and support theintegration of refugees and asylum seekers.Network and link together churches across the UK who are welcoming refugees.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-1) THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AMONG PEOPLE WHO ARE REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS WHO ARE SOCIALLY EXCLUDED ON THE GROUNDS OF THEIR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC POSITION; AND2) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

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

Registered contact address: Derby, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £27,354 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £288,304 to £260,950. Despite the deficit, the trustees consider the level of unrestricted reserves (£173,299) to be reasonable, representing approximately six months of expenditure against a policy target of three months. The accounts state there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Welcome Churches (matched by registered charity number).

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Joneschair
• Andrew David Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elinor Gage
• George Haddad
• Hannah Baynes
• Jonathan Dyson · trustee of 2 other charities
• MARION DORIS KNELL
• Nathaniel Jennings
• Sarah Linn

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

Operates in: Belgium · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 WELCOME DIRECTORY.

• THE WELCOME DIRECTORY income £69k
• UK WELCOMES REFUGEES income £256k
• REFUGEES IN EFFECTIVE AND ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP income £84k
• REFUGEES AT HOME income £924k
• ASYLUM WELCOME income £1.6m
• REFUGEE ACTION income £6.9m

Side by side with its peers

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