THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH EAST MIDLANDS SYNOD INCORPORATED

Registered charity 511712 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (EAST MIDLANDS PROVINCE) INCORPORATED

Religious activities

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had unrestricted reserves of £20,797,720 at the year end, though the underlying operating deficit was £576,000 after adjusting for property sales and pension refunds. The directors anticipate that additional investments will be required once funds are realised from the sale of surplus properties to reduce the shortfall between investment income and recurring expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01566806

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Revd Geoffrey Clarke — Moderator (source)
• Revd Jane Wade — Deputy Moderator (source)
• Dr Graham Jennings — Synod Clerk (source)
• David Greatorex — 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.

• MUIR, Craig Neil, Rev — director, appointed 31/10/2024on trustee list
• PLAATJIES, Marcelle Peter — director, appointed 31/01/2024on trustee list
• JENNINGS, Graham Deryck John, Dr — director, appointed 01/07/2023on trustee list
• MOSELEY, Lesley Anne, Rev — director, appointed 19/01/2021on trustee list
• WHEELER, Catriona Mary Ann — director, appointed 26/05/2020on trustee list
• CLARKE, Geoffrey Stephen, Rev — director, appointed 01/05/2020on trustee list
• BRESLIN, James Alexander, Revd — director, appointed 25/02/2020on trustee list
• GRIFFITHS, Vaughan Wynne — director, appointed 19/08/2019on trustee list
• WILD, James Watson Eyre — director, appointed 25/06/2014on trustee list
• GREATOREX, David John — director, appointed 10/11/2011on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

90 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (90 freehold); recorded price paid £6.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~107.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (77% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/12/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATRIONA MARY ANN WHEELER · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID JOHN GREATOREX
• Graham Deryck John Jennings · trustee of 2 other charities
• JAMES WATSON EYRE WILD
• Marcelle Plaatjies
• Rev Craig Neil Muir
• Rev Geoffrey Stephen Clarke
• Rev James Alexander Breslin
• Rev Lesley Anne Moseley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Vaughan Wynne Griffiths

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

Operates in: Derbyshire · Leicestershire · Lincolnshire · Milton Keynes · Northamptonshire · Nottinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNION OF WELSH INDEPENDENTS INCORPORATED.

• UNION OF WELSH INDEPENDENTS INCORPORATED income £674k
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (SOUTH WESTERN SYNOD) INCORPORATED income £1.0m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (EASTERN PROVINCE) TRUST income £3.9m
• THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH (WESSEX) TRUST LIMITED income £10.6m
• ST. ANTONY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH income £250k
• THE CHRISTADELPHIAN AUXILIARY LECTURING SOCIETY income £201k

Side by side with its peers

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