THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WEST MIDLANDS) TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 507027 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The trust is a company limited by guarantee and was formed on 2/11/77. The Memorandum and Articles of Association provide its governing document and constitution. Its object is to advance the Christian religion in accordance with the doctrines, principles and usages of the United Reformed Church, particularly in the West Midlands.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £3.55m for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by a £2.4m surplus from property sales and £1.74m in unrealised investment gains. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue as a going concern with no material uncertainty identified. Unrestricted general funds stood at £10.6m, while the charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme with no disclosed deficit.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01337047

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Steve Faber — Synod Moderator (source)
• Rachel Wakeman — Synod Clerk (source)
• Steve Powell — Synod Treasurer (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BARKER, Angela — director, appointed 18/10/2025on trustee list
• HUTCHINSON, Elaine Delorious, Revd — director, appointed 15/06/2021on trustee list
• FABER, Steven Mark, Revd — director, appointed 01/09/2015on trustee list
• THOMAS, Keith James — director, appointed 15/03/2014on trustee list
• MARSHALL, Margaret — director, appointed 23/06/2012on trustee list
• DICKER, Terence Richard — director, appointed 13/11/2010on trustee list
• BLACK, David Stangoe — director, appointed 05/06/2001on trustee list
• MOUNTAIN, Paul — secretary, appointed 07/11/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

125 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (119 freehold); recorded price paid £6.3m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~30.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (75% 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (01/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANGELA BARKER
• DAVID STANGOE BLACK · trustee of 1 other charity
• KEITH JAMES THOMAS · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARGARET FLORENCE MARSHALL
• REV STEVEN MARK FABER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Elaine Delorious Hutchinson
• STEPHEN MARK POWELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• TERENCE RICHARD DICKER

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Gloucestershire · Herefordshire · Sandwell · Shropshire · Solihull · Staffordshire · Walsall

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTHERN SYNOD) TRUST LIMITED.

• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTHERN SYNOD) TRUST LIMITED income £7.4m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WESSEX) TRUST LIMITED income £10.6m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ( NORTHERN PROVINCE) TRUST LTD. income £2.0m
• CROSSWAY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £264k
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTH WESTERN SYNOD) INCORPORATED income £1.0m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (EASTERN PROVINCE) TRUST income £3.9m

Side by side with its peers

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