RURAL MINISTRIES

Registered charity 200027 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DATCHET EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP, DATCHET EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP LIMITED

To support rural churches in their growth and development and assist in the planting of new rural churches.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £2,648,897 are maintained within the charity's policy target of three to six months' expenditure. However, the trustees note that the charity normally runs at an annual loss and that current resources will eventually lead to closure unless funds are replenished.

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 4 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)

8 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~71.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Hilary Anne Taylor
• Kevin Karl Gladwell
• Paul Kenneth Susans · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Yann Dubreuil
• Timothy Lea

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PARISH OF EAST HAM, HOLY TRINITY.

• PARISH OF EAST HAM, HOLY TRINITY income £345k
• MUSIC IN COUNTRY CHURCHES income £155k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FRENSHAM income £110k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. PETER'S CHURCH BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA income £126k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MARY UPTON (OVERCHURCH) income £539k

Side by side with its peers

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