MEDICAL MISSIONARY NEWS FUND

Registered charity 229296 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MEDICAL MISSIONARY NEWS

Supports medical missionaries and mission hospitals through the provision of medicines, medical aids and auxiliary apparatus overseas for the relief of disease, sickness and suffering, via container shipping, in partnership with like-minded missionary organisations through the provision of grants, and through the sponsorship of medics in their training and attendance at courses.

Objects

FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES ONLY IN CONNEXION WITH SUCH CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL SELECT. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE TRUST DEED DATED 4TH APRIL 1947 CLAUSE 5).

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Get email alerts

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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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (02/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (03/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Operates in: Afghanistan · Albania · Angola · Benin · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Cambodia · Cameroon · Chad · China · Congo (Democratic Republic) · India · Iraq

Income and spending