BORDERLANDS MISSION AREA

Registered charity 1177376 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · filing overdue (register status)

The promotion of the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical, in the parish known as Borderlands Mission Area - this includes the provision of regular public worship open to all, sacred space for personal prayer and contemplation, pastoral care, the teaching of Christianity, outreach to the wider local community and support and activities for specific groups.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL, IN THE PARISH.

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: Flintshire, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the Mission Area's unrestricted general fund held £1,383,422 in free reserves at the end of the year, providing a significant buffer against the reported financial pressures and increased reliance on reserves. Although the charity reported a net expenditure for the year, its total net assets stood at £2,113,807, and the trustees confirmed adequate resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 19/11/2025, 19 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 04/02/2025, 96 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 25/04/2024, 177 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 19/09/2023, 323 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Reported reserves equal ~26.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ANDREA SUSAN JONESchair
• ALAN DAVID GRIFFITHS · trustee of 1 other charity
• BLODWEN ELLIS
• Brenda Macaskill · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Mackie · trustee of 2 other charities
• Delyth Ann Lee
• GARETH JONES
• HELEN ANN DALRYMPLE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kathleen Jones
• Lacey Jones
• Patricia Ann Cole · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Henry Hewins
• Rev Alan Cronin
• Rev Alexier Olwen Mayes
• Rev GILLIAN KAY STANNING
• Rev NEIL ANTHONY KELLY
• Rev SALLY BAIRD
• Rev Simon Piercy
• Robert Nigel Dawson
• SARAH ANN WILLIAMS
• STEPHEN SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Fairclough
• Steven David Tattum · trustee of 1 other charity
• VALERIE SHARRATT ALDCROFT
• William Steven Wallace

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

Operates in: Flintshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRYN A MÔR MISSION AREA.

• BRYN A MÔR MISSION AREA income £216k
• MISSION WITHOUT BORDERS income £3.4m
• ABER-MORFA MISSION AREA income £480k
• HUDDERSFIELD MISSION income £547k
• MOORLANDS CHURCH income £633k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY KIPPINGTON income £159k

Side by side with its peers

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