WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER ENGLAND AND WALES

Registered charity 272318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as M E OR MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER, MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER (ENGLAND)

Worldwide Marriage Encounter presents training and education programmes for those who the Roman Catholic Church defines as having committed themselves to "The marriage covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership for their whole life...". It is in this context that it also presents marriage preparation training programmes, entitled 'Engaged Encounter'.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE TO PROVIDE EDUCATION, ADVICE, GUIDANCE AND DISCUSSIONS FOR MARRIED COUPLES AND COUPLES PREPARING FOR MARRIAGE, IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY HAVE A PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RIGHTS, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF A CHRISTIAN MARRIED LIFE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ROMAN CATHOLIC TRADITION AND AS LAID DOWN BY CANON LAW, AS WELL AS FOR PRIESTS AND MEMBERS OF RELIGIOUS ORDERS WHO WISH TO INCREASE THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR RELATIONAL SKILLS WITH THEIR PARISHIONERS OR IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased from £84,130 to £91,791, resulting in a net income of £7,661 for the year. The trustees report the charity is financially sound and prepared on a going concern basis. Total expenditure of £37,103 was significantly lower than the previous year's £79,978, driven by cancelled events and a shift to online formats.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bianca Maria Smith
• Deirdre Mary Fairman
• Father Andrew Thomas Burns CSsR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hilary Yen Ling Sabine FCCA
• Paul Edward Smith
• Russell Edward Fairman

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ANGLICAN MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER.

• ANGLICAN MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER income £44k
• WOMEN'S INTERFAITH NETWORK income £163k
• THE WIDOWS EMPOWERMENT TRUST income £114k
• THE CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS OF ENGLAND AND WALES income £265k
• GIRLS NOT BRIDES: THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP TO END CHILD MARRIAGE income £5.9m
• Encounter Christianity income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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