North Monmouthshire Ministry Area
What it does
Activities include worship, pastoral work in the community, engagement with local school providing baptisms, marriages and funerals for the local community, maintaining local church buildings and churchyard. Through social and outreach activities we also raise funds to continue our work and maintain our buildings and churchyards. We operate from our 17 church buildings and 5 clergy parsonages.
Its charitable purposes
THE PROMOTION OF THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL, IN THE PARISH.
Causes
- What it works on
- General charitable purposes
- Education and training
- Overseas aid and famine relief
- Religious activities
- Arts, culture, heritage and science
- Environment, conservation and heritage
- Human rights, equality and diversity
- Recreation
- Who it helps
- Children and young people
- Older people
- Disabled people
- The general public
- How it works
- Provides buildings, facilities or open space
- Provides services
- Provides advocacy, advice or information
Where it works
- In Wales
- Monmouthshire
Income and spending
In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £359,963 and spent £268,644.
| Year ending | Income | Spending | Paid staff | Volunteers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | £359,963 | £268,644 | Not reported | 100 |
| 31 December 2024 | £317,050 | £299,414 | Not reported | 100 |
| 31 December 2023 | £317,833 | £327,621 | Not reported | 80 |
Financial position
Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.
- Income over time
- Up 13%, from £317,833 in the year to 31 December 2023 to £359,963 in the year to 31 December 2025.
- Spending against income
- It spent 75% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 3 years shown.
- Largest funder
- Youth Ministry gave £12,643 in the year to 31 December 2025, 4% of that year's income.
Government funding, as the charity reported it
Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: Not reported. Government contracts: Not reported.
| Year ending | Government grants | Government contracts |
|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 31 December 2024 | Not reported | Not reported |
| 31 December 2023 | Not reported | Not reported |
Who funds it, according to its accounts
In its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2025, the charity named 13 funders who gave £35,013 between them. £3,050 of that came from public bodies.
These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.
| Funder | Type | Dec 2025 | Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Ministry | Trust, company or other | £12,643 | |
| CGEAG | Trust, company or other | £9,000 | |
| Grant Diocese | Trust, company or other | £6,990 | £3,825 |
| MCC Grant award | Trust, company or other | £2,400 | £5,073 |
| Monmouthshire County Council | Council | £1,600 | |
| Whitecastle CC | Council | £1,000 | £2,000 |
| Pandy Ploughing society | Trust, company or other | £350 | |
| Community council graveyard grant | Council | £250 | |
| CollecTin Grant | Trust, company or other | £200 | |
| Skenfrith Community Council | Council | £200 | |
| Thy kingdom come | Trust, company or other | £148 | |
| Ecclestical 130 Trust | Trust, company or other | £130 | |
| Diocese Grant MA | Trust, company or other | £102 | £602 |
| Diocese Support Grant | Trust, company or other | £2,638 | |
| Green Energy | Trust, company or other | £1,430 | |
| Grant DBF | Trust, company or other | £1,308 | |
| Welsh Church Fund | Trust, company or other | £1,000 | |
| LPWGS | Trust, company or other | £445 | |
| Gobion Fawr | Trust, company or other | £50 | |
| Diocese Board of Finance | Trust, company or other | £40 |
Grants awarded to it, published on 360Giving
No grants to this charity appear in 360Giving data.
Trustees
20 trustees run the charity.
- The Reverend Julian Francis GrayChair
- Christopher Mitchley
- Colin Raymond Jarrett
- Cordelia Passmore
- Emma Yvonne Robinson
- Eric Graham Evans
- Janet Barr Watson
- Jessica Mary Graham
- John Lewis Pavett
- Karen Jane Farr
- Kay Ann Howells
- Margaret Kathleen Parry
- Peter Knapp
- Philippa Frances Rumsey
- Rev CAROLINE HEIDI ANN PRINCE
- Rev DAVID CHARLES ROBERTS
- Rev David Williams
- Rev Mary Moore
- Thomas Ninian Lowes
- Verity Margaret Rumsey
Filing record
Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.
| Year ending | Due | Annual return | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | 31 October 2026 | Received 29 September 2026, 32 days early | Received 29 September 2026 |
| 31 December 2024 | 31 October 2025 | Received 18 September 2025, 43 days early | Received 18 September 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | 31 October 2024 | Received 24 September 2024, 37 days early | Received 24 September 2024 |
About this charity
- Charity number
- 1203196
- Status
- Registered
- Registered with the Commission
- 22 May 2023
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 01 JAN 1920
- Council area of its contact address
- Monmouthshire
Sources
- Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
- Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
- Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there, as loaded by OpenEconomy.