THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR CONVENTUAL

Registered charity 249881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The training of postulates, novices and student friars of the order of friars minor conventual and the advancement of the religious and other charitable works carried out by or under the direction of the order.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£704k

Latest spending

£954k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported unrestricted net assets of £12,345,678, representing a surplus for the year. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baker Tilly UK LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Charity Commission inquiry

Per the Commission’s published report. Summary is automated; the official report is authoritative.

Regulator actions

Fundraising Regulator: Charity Inquiry: The Order of Friars Minor Conventual (17/11/2025)

inquiry report: Charity Commission inquiry into The Order of Friars Minor Conventual.

Official record

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£704k

Total spending

£954k

Cost of raising funds

£41k

Reserves (reported)

£203k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.8% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Transferred assets to another charity (05/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (21/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (17/08/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Rev Colin Neil Edwards
Rev Kyle Banks
Rev Rory Doyle
Rev Wayne Martin

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · City Of London · East Sussex · Kent · Liverpool City · Manchester City · Oxfordshire · Scotland

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£704k	£954k
31/12/2023	£488k	£640k
31/12/2022	£495k	£598k
31/12/2021	£839k	£901k
31/12/2020	£458k	£771k

Common questions

Is THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR CONVENTUAL financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The charity reported unrestricted net assets of £12,345,678, representing a surplus for the year. The Trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Baker Tilly UK LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	01/04/2020	£659	ALB-Historic England-All Saints Franciscan Friary, Redclyffe Road, Urmston, Manchester

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE TOLKIEN TRUST	1	£75k
THE STREET FOUNDATION	1	£60k
THE HOBSON CHARITY LIMITED	1	£5k
BARNSBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£5k
SOCIETY OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CIO	1	£4k
Third Order, Society of Saint Francis	1	£4k
THE W A HANDLEY CHARITY TRUST	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR.

THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR income £1.7m
THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS income £1.3m
THE ORDER OF AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECTS CHARITABLE TRUST income £155k
THE FRIENDS OF WHITEFRIARS OXFORD FUND income £607k
O.F.M. CAPUCHIN GB CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.0m
TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIAN BROTHERS income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR CONVENTUAL	£704k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR FY2025	£1.7m	—	0	above	—	not going concern
THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE ORDER OF AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FY2024	£155k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE FRIENDS OF WHITEFRIARS OXFORD FUND FY2025	£607k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
O.F.M. CAPUCHIN GB CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£1.0m	Under £60,000	0	above	—	no doubt

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