FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF MARY UK CIO

Registered charity 1199658 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The prevention or relief of povertyReligious activities

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net decrease in funds of £363,214 for the year, driven by total expenditure exceeding total income. The trustees consider the level of free reserves to be adequate to provide care for sisters and pursue charitable objectives, with no material uncertainties regarding going concern identified by the auditors.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (84% 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: 0.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Sister Alberta Forson
• Sister Elzbieta Maria Walkowiak
• Sister Helen Fennell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sister Hilde Vantomme
• Sister Loetitia Marie-Noelle Chevallier
• Sister Mary Brigid Fitzpatrick
• Sister Mary Rose Dornan

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

Operates in: Belgium · Faroe Islands · France · Ireland · Malta · Netherlands · 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.

• Sister Helen Fennell — trustee here and at FMM GENERALATE UK CIO

Known funders

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with FMM GENERALATE UK CIO.

• FMM GENERALATE UK CIO income £196k
• THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOSEPH income £1.2m
• CONGREGATION OF LA SAINTE UNION DES SACRES COEURS UK CIO income £1.9m
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD ICW THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY income £3.8m
• INSTITUTE OF THE RELIGIOUS OF THE SACRED HEART OF MARY IMMACULATE VIRGIN income £1.3m
• CONGREGATION OF OUR LADY OF THE MISSIONS CIO income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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