THE MOTHERS' UNION - GLOUCESTER DIOCESE

Registered charity 249912 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE MOTHERS' UNION - (DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER BRANCH)

Help is given by members to the Prison Play Area at Leyhill Prison; to the Mother and Baby Unit at Eastwood Park Prison; to Parenting Courses and to a Child Contact Centre at Cheltenham and at Gloucester. Some branches run mother and toddler groups in their parishes and some assist with marriage preparation courses and run lunch clubs for the elderly.

Objects

1) TO UPHOLD CHRIST'S TEACHING ON THE NATURE OF MARRIAGE AND TO PROMOTE ITS 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 GLOUCESTER.

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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Registered contact address: Gloucester, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a total surplus for the year of £2,062, with unrestricted funds standing at £45,593 and no liabilities at the year-end. The accounts were prepared on a receipts and payments basis, and an independent examiner reported no matters requiring attention regarding the accounting records or compliance with the Charities Act.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 12/04/2024, 164 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Doreen Mclellanchair
• Brenda Christine Davitt
• Caroline Winter
• Gemma McLean-Mair
• Geraldine Mary Jacobs
• KATHLEEN COTTEY
• Margaret Edwards · trustee of 2 other charities
• Margaret Elizabeth Thomas
• PETER JOHN COTTEY · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rebecca Phillips
• Rev Elizabeth Palin
• Ruth Creighton
• Vivienne Garland

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

Operates in: Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE MOTHERS' UNION (LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BRANCH) income £61k
• THE MOTHERS' UNION DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH income £33k
• THE MOTHERS' UNION (DIOCESE OF LEICESTER BRANCH) income £34k
• THE MOTHERS' UNION IN THE DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD income £46k
• THE MOTHERS UNION (DIOCESE OF DURHAM BRANCH) income £58k
• MOTHERS' UNION (DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER BRANCH) income £40k

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