UNION FOUNDATION

Registered charity 517324 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ETCW, THE EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE (WALES) LTD, UNION, UNION SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY, WALES EVANGELICAL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY LTD

Training people for the Christian Ministry

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £156,678 for the year ended 31 August 2025, resulting in total funds decreasing from £1,547,597 to £1,390,919. Per the trustees' report, the charity currently has no free reserves because its total reserves are fully offset by fixed assets valued at £1,904,980. The trustees note that the charity is developing strategic partnerships and new income sources to work towards greater financial resilience.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HSJ Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01987227

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Michael Reeves — President (source)
• Daniel Hames — Vice President (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.

• WINKLEHNER, Thomas — director, appointed 12/09/2025on trustee list
• HENDERSON, Daniel — director, appointed 15/12/2023on trustee list
• EDIFOR, Ernest Edem, Dr — director, appointed 22/05/2023on trustee list
• ARCHER, Trevor John, Rev — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• KIM, Ki Il — director, appointed 24/02/2023on trustee list
• ADAMS, Gwenfair, Dr — director, appointed 10/09/2021on trustee list
• LEE, Yun — director, appointed 26/02/2021on trustee list
• SHIN, Daniel (Myung Chul), Dr — director, appointed 11/09/2020on trustee list
• LEVY, Stephen Mark, Rev — director, appointed 14/09/2018on trustee list
• TINDALL, Michael Peter, Rev — director, appointed 08/08/2014not on trustee list
• KO, Sam, Rev — director, appointed 27/02/2011on trustee list
• MORRIS, Joel, Dr — secretary, appointed 02/06/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £300k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 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 (48% 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: 2.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Sam Kochair
• Daniel Henderson
• Dr Ernest Edem Edifor · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Gwenfair Adams
• Dr Myung Chul Shin
• Ki Il Kim
• REV MIKE TINDALL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Stephen Mark Levy · trustee of 1 other charity
• TREVOR ARCHER
• Thomas Winklehner
• Yun Lee

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

Operates in: Bridgend

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL.

• SCRIPTURE UNION INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL income £879k
• BETHEL UNITED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST APOSTOLIC U.K. income £1.1m
• GEFEN FOUNDATION income £373k
• THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £11.1m
• THE INJUSTICE FOUNDATION income £609k
• THE SANDERSON FOUNDATION income £236k

Side by side with its peers

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