MOTHERS' UNION (DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER BRANCH)

Registered charity 250086 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

A range of services are provided to support and enhance Christian family life in the Manchester Diocese and overseas. Financial and practical aid assists needs in schools, hospitals, hostels for the homeless, for elderly individuals in parishes,the diocese and where there is urgent need overseas.

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 FAOURABLE TO STABLE FAMILY LIFE AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.5)TO HELP THOSE WHOSE FAMILY HAS MET WITH ADVERSITY.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER

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 · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bury, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net cash outflow of £8,064 for the year, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted cash reserves from £48,359 to £40,295. The accounts were prepared on a receipts and payments basis, which the trustees explicitly state does not present a 'true and fair' view of the charity's financial activities. No specific reserves policy target or unrestricted reserves figure suitable for policy comparison is disclosed in the provided text.

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 4 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Canon Dr Addy Lazz-Onyenobi · trustee of 4 other charities
• Catherine Hilton
• Christine Leach
• John Sharp
• Pauline Greenhalgh
• Rosemary Taylor

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

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MOTHERS' UNION DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH.

• THE MOTHERS' UNION DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH income £33k
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• THE MOTHERS' UNION (LIVERPOOL DIOCESAN BRANCH) income £61k
• THE MOTHERS' UNION - DIOCESE OF YORK income £58k
• THE MOTHERS' UNION (DIOCESE OF LEICESTER BRANCH) income £34k
• MOTHERS' UNION, DIOCESE OF LEEDS income £81k

Side by side with its peers

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