UNITARIAN COLLEGE

Registered charity 1180457 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Education and training

Objects

1. THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES, ETHOS AND VALUES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES; 2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR MINISTERS AND LAY LEADERS THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FORMAL TRAINING COURSES AND OTHER COURSES AND EVENTS TO PREPARE MINISTERS AND LAY LEADERS FOR THIS ROLE; AND3. THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF RELIGIOUS HARMONY, EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COURSES AND OTHER LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMMUNITIES AND INDIVIDUALS OF ALL AGES.

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £189,509 before investment gains, resulting in a net decrease in funds of £129,148 for the year. The trustees report that cashflow remains a challenge and that the charity has utilized cash reserves to cover operating costs exceeding donations and charitable income. However, the charity holds significant investment assets of £929,338, which the trustees consider sufficient to support operations for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Arkadiusz Piotr Malecki · trustee of 2 other charities
• Cathie Masztalerz
• DOROTHY HEWERDINE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eleanor Rachel Watters
• Hilda Dumpleton
• Joan Cook · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Baker · trustee of 7 other charities
• Melanie Prideaux · trustee of 2 other charities
• Vince McCully · trustee of 1 other charity
• Wyn Thomas

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

Operates in: Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Arkadiusz Piotr Malecki — trustee here and at THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

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 WARWICK UNITARIANS.

• WARWICK UNITARIANS income £53k
• UNION FOUNDATION income £1.6m
• THE ABDO COLLEGE OF EDUCATION income £3.2m
• DEAN ROW UNITARIAN CHAPEL FUNDS HELD ICW income £46k
• MANCHESTER ISLAMIC EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £4.6m
• UNITY SCHOOL SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN FAMILIES income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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