Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 3
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

CHURCH URBAN FUND

Church Urban Fund works to catalyse social action and bring about positive change in lives and communities across England. Through a combination of community-based projects, capacity-building support and research and policy activity, we work with churches and a wide range of partners towards our goal of seeing people and communities flourish and enjoy life in all its fullness.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£3,970£3,448£522£458£3,826£2,7759.73230
31/12/22£4,570£3,298£1,272£406£3,304£2,5729.4290
31/12/21£5,130£6,255£-1,125£293£2,032£1,2882.5370
31/12/20£6,164£5,826£338£411£3,157£5821.2650
31/12/19£6,467£7,359£-892£824£2,820£2140.37250
31/12/18£6,399£6,477£-78£728£3,712£1,1412.1670
31/12/17£5,961£6,049£-88£665£3,790£1,1982.4580
31/12/16£5,605£5,366£239£641£3,878£1,2662.8490
31/12/15*£4,432£4,770£-338£564£3,639£1,4553.7400
31/12/14£4,190£3,851£339£515£3,977£1,4024.4300
31/12/13£4,157£3,812£345£499£3,446£1,2493.9170
31/12/12£4,540£4,744£-204£1,000£3,101£1,6644.2300
31/12/11£4,253£3,808£445£855£3,305£2,1486.8210
31/12/10£2,543£2,577£-34£615£2,860£2,0759.7160
31/12/09£2,814£2,690£124£637£2,894£2,1769.7170
31/12/08£2,747£3,139£-392£566£2,754£2,3048.8170
31/12/07£2,751£3,695£-944£522£3,420£3,37911180
31/12/06£2,649£4,390£-1,741n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/05£1,432£3,741£-2,309n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/04£1,483£3,484£-2,001n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 12.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 13.3%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 8%
Highest pay band: £100,000-£110,000
Liabilities/Assets: 6%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 73%
Reserves/Spending: 9.7 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 6.2
Asset Split ?
Balance Sheet History
Established: 37 years

http://www.cuf.org.uk

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Grant-making foundations
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Bishop Radford Trust - Grant to Church Urban Fund
£2,000 19/04/2022
Promote the Growing Good Toolkit, a six-session course for churches.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - CG-Near Neighbours Initiative
£1,000,000 24/06/2021
Near Neighbours brings people together to collaborate on initiatives that improve the local community they live in
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Windrush Day Grant Scheme
£537,116 24/05/2021
Annual scheme to celebrate National Windrush Day plus a small amount for administrative costs
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - CG-NEAR NEIGHBOURS INITIATIVE
£1,000,000 01/04/2020
Near Neighbours brings people together to collaborate on initiatives that improve the local community they live in
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - WINDRUSH
£510,000 01/04/2020
The Windrush Community Fund is financial support available to charity, community or grassroots organisations across the UK to fund projects which raise awareness of the Windrush Scheme.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
£500,000 01/04/2020
Grant funding to local authorities and Voluntary and Community Sector partners as part of the wider government response to support communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
£250,000 01/04/2020
Grant funding to local authorities and Voluntary and Community Sector partners as part of the wider government response to support communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
£200,000 01/04/2020
Grant funding to local authorities and Voluntary and Community Sector partners as part of the wider government response to support communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS
£250,000 01/04/2020
Grant funding to local authorities and Voluntary and Community Sector partners as part of the wider government response to support communities that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - CG-NEAR NEIGHBOURS INITIATIVE
£1,300,000 01/04/2019
Councils, charities and adult learning providers to receive a share of funding which will help adults with their English language skills.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - Windrush
£460,000 01/04/2019
Councils, charities and adult learning providers to receive a share of funding which will help adults with their English language skills.
Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government - CG-NEAR NEIGHBOURS INITIATIVE
£1,881,340 01/04/2018
The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) was a executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
DCMS - LIBOR (Lifesavers)
£21,000 01/04/2018
LifeSavers is a programme which supports the delivery of values-basedfinancial education within primary schools, combined with the involvement ofthe local credit union in establishing a school savings club. The grant is tosupport Phase 3, which ....more
DCMS - LIBOR (Lifesavers)
£191,000 01/04/2017
LifeSavers is a programme which supports the delivery of values-basedfinancial education within primary schools, combined with the involvement ofthe local credit union in establishing a school savings club. The grant is tosupport Phase 3, which ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Church Urban Fund
£120,000 12/09/2012
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towards three years' salary of a Local Development Worker and associated running costs of establishing projects in Liverpool to combat poverty
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Church Urban Fund
£195,000 15/09/2011
Towards the salary of a development worker who will create the capacity of faith based organisations and local activists to tackle poverty.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 49-73
  • ALISON ESTHER GRIEVE Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Retired
  • CHANDRU MICHAEL DISSANAYEKE Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Civil Servant
  • CHRISTOPHER JAMES CUMMINGS Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Executive Officer
  • JACQUELINE BROUGHTON Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Hr Director
  • KATHERINE MCPHERSON (Chair) Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chief Strategy Officer
  • MATTHEW TOBY NATHAN GIRT Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Ceo / Diocesan Secretary
  • REV CATHERINE FRANCES ALLISON Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Minister Of Religion
  • SUSAN CATHERINE CHALKLEY OBE FCIH Appointed: 2019
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 18/09/1987, number: 297483
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/06/1987, number: 02138994
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • 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
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR15: 0 days late,
Main office

The Foundry
17 Oval Way
LONDON
SE11 5RR

Objectives

TO PROMOTE ANY CHARITABLE PURPOSE IN URBAN AREAS WITHIN THE PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK WHICH ARE IN NEED OF SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL ASSISTANCE BY REASON OF SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CHANGES WITH A VIEW TO REINFORCING THE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AMONG THE PEOPLE OF THOSE AREAS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

PROVINCES OF CANTERBURY AND YORK

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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