UNIVERSAL PRAYER GROUP MINISTRY

Registered charity 298368 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UPG MINISTRIES

Propagation of the christian religionGeneral Charitable purposesEducation / Training, Care and counselling

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE RELIGION BY PROPAGATING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. (B) THE RELIEF AND COMFORT OF THE SICK AND THE PHYSICALLY AND MENTALLY HANDICAPPED. (C) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY NEED AND DISTRESS PARTICULARLY BUY NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF ADVICE. (D) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE SO TO DEVELOP THEIR PHYSICAL MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL CAPACITIES AND SELF DISCIPLINE SO THAT THEY MIGHT GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £24,687 with total income of £2,001,292, resulting in unrestricted funds of £6,001,353. The trustees' report notes that missionary work in Africa, Asia, and Europe is suspended due to financial limitations, and the charity holds reserves of £6,001,353 against a policy target of approximately £200,000.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hilton Accountants. 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sam Ohene-Apraku — Senior Pastor (source)
• Betty Ohene-Apraku — Pastor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (68% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PETER YAW AMANKWAchair
• Angela Zamaere Smith
• Dr EMMANUEL OKHUEGBE OLOKE FCCA
• JERRY NII OKAN TAWIAH
• Leslie Kwame Adade Boafo

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

Operates in: Bexley · Birmingham City · Brent · Ghana · Haringey · Kenya · Scotland · Southwark · United States

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.

• COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £209k
• GOVERNANCE MINISTRIES income £7.6m
• UNIVERSAL PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £2.1m
• UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (UK) income £1.5m
• BRIGHTON UNITARIAN CHURCH CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION income £135k
• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m

Side by side with its peers

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