MISSIONARIES OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES

Registered charity 234926 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Missionaries of Saint Francis De Sales is a Roman Catholic religious congregation whose main work is to share the mission of the Roman Catholic Church, to be involved in parish renewal and education, in the spirit and model of St Francis de Sales.

Objects

SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE HE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORKS CARRIED ON BY THE MISSIONARIES OF SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves of £1,270,386 are held, which the trustees consider to be in excess of their stated policy target of two to three years' expenditure. The charity reported a net increase in funds of £170,574 for the year, driven by voluntary income and significant gains on listed investments.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~102.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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: 1.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Thomas Kulandaisamy MSFSchair
• Rev BENJAMIN SUNDER MARIYASUSAI MSFS
• Rev JOHN TERENCE MCGRATH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev MariaSelvan Alexander MSFS
• Rev VIJAYASATYA PRASAD KASIREDDY MSFS

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOSEPH.

• THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF ST. JOSEPH income £3.3m
• THE SOCIETY OF MARY (MARIST FATHERS) CIO income £798k
• CONGREGATION OF NOTRE DAME DE SION LIMITED income £1.5m
• SOCIETY OF SAINT FRANCIS CENTRAL FUND income £155k
• CHARITY FOR ST JOSEPH'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BRITISH REGION) income £2.2m
• HOLY GHOST MISSIONARY CONGREGATION income £121k

Side by side with its peers

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