UFM WORLDWIDE

Registered charity 219946 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC039343 (OSCR)

Christian Missionary Agency

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves of £453,174 exceed the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £228,000 (three months of general fund expenditure). The charity reported a net expenditure on unrestricted general funds of £494,470, which was covered by transfers from designated missionary support funds, resulting in a net increase in total funds for the year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00265218

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — UFM Worldwide (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DUNKLEY, Louise Sally — director, appointed 12/01/2026on trustee list
• LIU, Samuel — director, appointed 12/01/2026on trustee list
• HARRIS, Paula Marie — director, appointed 06/10/2025on trustee list
• BUSS, Victoria Claire — director, appointed 28/11/2022on trustee list
• BUNTING, Geoff — director, appointed 14/06/2021on trustee list
• POWELL, Graeme Huw Morgan — director, appointed 06/03/2017on trustee list
• SHAW, John Dempster, Rev — director, appointed 05/10/2015not on trustee list
• CURRY, Stephen William, Rev — director, appointed 11/10/2010not on trustee list
• EVANS, Matthew David — director, appointed 03/06/2009on trustee list
• DUFFIN, Jason Elliot — director, appointed 12/09/2005on trustee list
• WYNN, Kirsten Mary — director, appointed 09/07/2002on trustee list
• CARMICHAEL, David Smyth, Rev — director, appointed 10/06/1999on trustee list
• MYERSCOUGH, Richard — director, appointed 20/04/1996on trustee list
• PREST, Michael Stephen — secretary, appointed 08/06/2017

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £501k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (97% 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 (21/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jason Elliot Duffinchair · trustee of 5 other charities
• Geoff Bunting
• Graeme Huw Morgan Powell
• KIRSTEN MARY WYNN
• Louise Dunkley
• MATTHEW DAFYDD EVANS
• Paula Marie Harris
• REV IAIN SHAW
• Rev DAVID CARMICHAEL
• Rev RICHARD MYERSCOUGH
• Rev STEVEN CURRY
• Samuel Liu
• Victoria Buss

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

Operates in: Brazil · Bulgaria · Burkina Faso · Burma · Cameroon · Canada · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Djibouti · France · Germany · Greece · Hungary

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.

• JASON ELLIOT DUFFIN — trustee here and at THE SHAFTESBURY CHRISTIAN TRUST
• Jason Elliot Duffin — trustee here and at THE DEO GLORIA TRUST

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 DOMINICAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CIO.

• DOMINICAN MISSIONARY SISTERS OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS CIO income £340k
• FOCUS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £126k
• YAD VEACHISOMOCH L'CHAIM income £834k
• REGIONS BEYOND UK income £353k
• WORD OF LIFE MINISTRIES UK LIMITED income £163k
• RCCG SURE FOUNDATION ASSEMBLY income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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