THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF UNITARIAN AND FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

Registered charity 250788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promotion of Religion

Objects

TO PROMOTE A FREE AND INQUIRING RELIGION THROUGH THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE; THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY AND RESPECT FOR ALL CREATION; AND THE UPHOLDING OF THE LIBERAL CHRISTIAN TRADITION.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,521,440, which is 4.7 times the annual operational costs, placing the charity in the 'green light' category of its reserves policy. However, the financial statements were prepared on a basis other than going concern because the trustees agreed to transfer all activities, assets, and liabilities to a newly formed charitable incorporated organisation.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: no going-concern doubt (FY2024) → going-concern doubt noted (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 31/07/2024, 1 day after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 30/09/2022 (received 27/10/2023, 89 days after the 30/07/2023 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 · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~35.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (50% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander John Bates · trustee of 2 other charities
• Andrew Appleyard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Arkadiusz Piotr Malecki · trustee of 2 other charities
• Joseph Calvert · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Donna Stephanie Bisby · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Winniefred Joan Gordon · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Benfield
• Zachariah Reuben Amos Baker · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 SHREWSBURY UNITARIAN CHURCH.

• SHREWSBURY UNITARIAN CHURCH income £50k
• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH LOFTUS income £97k
• THE CHURCHES OF GOD IN UK income £519k
• UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £131k
• RANSOM CHURCH OF GOD UNIVERSAL FELLOWSHIP income £90k
• WILMSLOW UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £246k

Side by side with its peers

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