MOTHERS UNION (DIOCESE OF DERBY BRANCH)

Registered charity 242671 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Holidays & outings for families under stress. Provide clothing for prem babies in Derbyshire hospitals & toiletries for emergency admissions. Provide Helpful Books for children in Primary Schools. Support for women's refuges & help with project for young girls caught up in prostitution. We help run parenting groups and Mother & Toddler groups. Provide Moses Baskets for Derby Refugee Centre.

Objects

1) TO UPHOLD CHRIST'S TEACHING ON THE NATURE OF MARRIAGE AND TO PROMOTE IT'S WIDER UNDERSTANDING. 2) TO ENCOURAGE PARENTS TO BRING UP THEIR CHILDREN IN THE FAITH AND LIFE OF THE CHURCH. 3) TO MAINTAIN A WORLDWIDE FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS, UNITED IN PRAYER, WORSHIP AND SERVICE. 4) TO PROMOTE CONDITIONS IN SOCIETY FAVOURABLE TO STABLE FAMILY LIFE AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN. 5) TO HELP THOSE WHOSE FAMILY LIFE HAS MET WITH ADVERSITY.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF DERBY

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Diocese of Derby Mothers' Union is a voluntary organization driven by its members, with no explicit financial statements or reserve figures provided in this annual report. The document notes that the Hulland Hippos Baby and Toddler Group maintains a separate financial statement with a bank balance of £1,251.80, but no consolidated financial health data is disclosed for the diocese itself.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Emily May Brailsfordchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Alison Orchard
• BERYL MURDY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Carol Joy Johnston
• Christine Elizabeth McMullen · trustee of 1 other charity
• DENISE TOMLINSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Janet Bradshaw · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Eleanor Shields Berry
• Sheila Elizabeth Randall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sheila Porter
• Wendy Fitch

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

Operates in: Derby City · Derbyshire

Income and spending

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