MILTON KEYNES CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION LIMITED

Registered charity 293546 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In all our activities we seek to express the basic belief that all people and things have an essential value and inherent potential and we try to work in ways that enable some of this potential to be released. Our main activities continue to be focussed around four areas:-?+?-? Groups on the margins-?+?-? Regeneration-?+?-? Sustainability-?+?-? Economic and social justice

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Area of benefit: MILTON KEYNES

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 · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Milton Keynes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased by £109,639 to £1,343,122, driven by a £220,974 gain on the sale of property which offset a net expenditure on charitable activities. The trustees report a proposed significant deficit budget for the following year and note that the charity faces increased costs and a building that requires substantial future repair work.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hillier Hopkins LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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
• 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 31/03/2023 (received 28/03/2024, 57 days after the 31/01/2024 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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Milton Keynes Community Foundation — “The Milton Keynes Community Foundation have this year (2023) funded some crucial equipment in the Think Food micro bakery/cafe based from Fo…” (source page)
• Architectural Heritage Fund — “We were very pleased and excited to be awarded a grant by the Architectural Heritage Fund in April 2020.” (source page)
• European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 — “We are grateful to have received funding in partnership with the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020 .” (source page)
• Lloyds Bank Foundation — “The Lloyds Bank Foundation has been supporting the Milton Keynes Christian Foundation by providing financial support for two of our social e…” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.6 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven Snookchair
• Claire Michelle Kirkwood
• Clare Louise Anne Veal
• Dr Philip Roger Wall
• JAMES GRAHAM GHALEB · trustee of 1 other charity
• REVEREND PETER SHARROCKS
• Rev JENNIFER M MILLS

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

Operates in: Milton Keynes

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRACE CHURCH MILTON KEYNES.

• GRACE CHURCH MILTON KEYNES income £196k
• CHILTERN CHURCH income £276k
• THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN LONDON LIMITED income £169k
• MILTON KEYNES IAC income £370k
• THE MILTON KEYNES CHINESE CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £247k
• KING'S CHURCH (MILTON KEYNES) income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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