MINISTERS' PENSION FUND

Registered charity 235410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MINISTERS' PENSION AND INSURANCE FUND, MPF

Is a pension provider for Unitarian ministers, lay pastors and their spouses

Objects

TO ASSIST THE MINISTERS MENTIONED IN RULE 2 OF THE CONSTITUTION TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THEIR OLD AGE AND THEIR FAMILIES AFTER THEIR DEATH.

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 the Fund's net assets increased by £110,967 to £5,022,076 at the end of the year. The Trustees report that the Fund had a surplus in relation to accrued benefits of £394,000 as at the last actuarial valuation, representing a funding level of 109%. Administrative expenses were managed at £59,907, which the Trustees note represents 1.2% of the value of the Fund.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Scott Roberts Taylor & Co. Discloses 3 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Appleyard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hilda Marlow Dumpleton
• JEFFREY JAMES TEAGLE
• Jane Anne Couper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marion Baker · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rev CAROLE LYNNE READETT · trustee of 2 other charities

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

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

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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