THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE) TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 511689 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Supporting the spreading of the Gospel at home and abroad, the life and witness of the United Reformed Church, the interests of the Church as a whole and the wellbeing of the society in which the Church is placed, in particular in the NW of England. Custodian Trustee for all properties owned by the Local Churches within the North Western Synod of the URC and properties owned by the Synod.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds showed a deficit on general funds of £993,312, which was cleared by net transfers from designated funds. Per the trustees' report, the balance sheet continues to show a strong position with unrestricted income funds having a combined value of approximately £18.3 million, despite a small decrease from the previous year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sumer Auditco Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mike Hart — Transformation Director (source)
• Clare Downing — Rev'd (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)

146 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (123 freehold); recorded price paid £5.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (69% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/06/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher John Boyes
• John Skipworth
• Linda Jacqueline Davidson
• Professor John Christopher Whitehead
• Rev Michael Aspinall · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Michael Paul Thomason
• Simon Dibbs
• Stephen Reginald Hunt

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (EASTERN PROVINCE) TRUST income £3.9m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTH WESTERN SYNOD) INCORPORATED income £1.0m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ( NORTHERN PROVINCE) TRUST LTD. income £2.0m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTHERN SYNOD) TRUST LIMITED income £7.4m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WEST MIDLANDS) TRUST LIMITED income £3.2m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (YORKSHIRE PROVINCE) TRUST LTD income £1.2m

Side by side with its peers

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