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Registered charity · London

Church Urban Fund

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £3.0m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
Where
Throughout England
Website
www.cuf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Church Urban Fund
Registered
1987

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£3.0m£3.8m
  • 2024£3.8m£3.6m
  • 2023£4.0m£3.4m
Earlier years
  • 2022£4.6m£3.3m
  • 2021£5.1m£6.3m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 4% · Government grants 34%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

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.

Grants received

20 grants · £9,252,456 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £4,762,116 (10 grants)
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government · £2,275,000 (4 grants)
  • Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government · £1,881,340
  • Department for Culture, Media and Sport · £191,000
  • Henry Smith Foundation · £120,000

Most recent

  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £250,0002025-03-05
  • SHAREGIFT £1,0002025-02-18
  • Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government £265,0002024-11-25
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £250,0002023-04-01
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £265,0002023-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

2.2y median 1y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (3)

10
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 11General Charitable Purposes 10Religious Activities 3Education/training 2Disability 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 12Education 7Hospitality 3

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£3.8m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

10.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.5 in 2020

29 from 65 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.
28%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
297483
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 09/06/1987AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 05/07/2011
Companies House
Company number 02138994 · Active
Contact on the register
02037525655 · hello@cuf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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