Union Chapel

Registered charity 1172808 · since 2017unionchapel.org.uk·Islington·Updated 29 October 2026

At a glance

£18,360

Annual giving, year to 31 March 2025

From filed accounts

Key takeaways

Union Chapel's work fits best if your project supports asylum seekers and refugees, or works on racial, social, economic or climate justice from a Christian perspective.
Its annual report gives annual giving of £18,360, though the register does not confirm that scale, and no grant range is stated, so a modest, specific request is the safest starting point.
No application process is published, so use the contact shown to ask whether it is open to proposals before you write a full application.
No deadlines appear in the annual report, its register entry or its website, and nothing published says how competitive its giving is, so expect an uncertain timescale.
No exclusions or eligibility conditions are published, so none of them rules out your group.

Overview

Union Chapel is a charity registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales (charity number 1172808).

Union Chapel is a church community of Christians from diverse backgrounds, committed to spiritual, sustainable lives and to the Gospel's call for justice and peace. Its programme promotes racial, social, economic and climate justice from a radical Christian perspective. It supports asylum seekers and refugees living in North London through English and culture classes, a humanitarian fund, legal advice through a partnership, casework and advocacy. Its asylum seekers grant is money from Islington Borough Council for specified work supporting asylum seekers accommodated within the borough, supplemented by a small amount donated for that work.

What they fund

Priority Areas

Union Chapel describes its church as a community of Christians of diverse backgrounds, committed to spiritual, sustainable lives and the Gospel’s call for justice and peace. Its programme promotes racial, social, economic and climate justice from a radical Christian perspective. The church provides a warm welcome to asylum seekers and refugees living in North London, offering English and culture classes, a humanitarian fund for people in desperate situations, exercise and wellbeing activities, legal advice through a partnership, casework and advocacy, and practical support. Its wider activities include worship, pastoral care, community events and advocacy for people who are disadvantaged or marginalised.

Themes

Asylum seeker support
Racial justice
Social justice
Economic justice
Climate justice

How to apply

No application process is published in the charity's annual report, its register entry or its website. The contact shown is for getting in touch.

Where they fund

Registered area of operation (Charity Commission)

Islington

Similar funders

Funders supporting work similar to Union Chapel.

Kingston United Reformed ChurchNo public processGave £7,226 St Michael's Church, SouthfieldsNo public processGave £28,551 Crossway Church URCNo public processGave £850 St John's Southall GreenNo public process Grace Church GreenwichNo public processGave £2,983 CloudesleyMixed deadlinesGave £2.3M Cripplegate FoundationMixed deadlinesGave £2.1M CSDS FoundationInvitation onlyGave £65,575 Dame Alice Owen FoundationRollingGave £2.9M The Fishmongers’ Company’s Charitable Trust (FCCT)Fixed deadlinesGave £3.4M

Five years of accounts

Financial year	Income	Expenditure	Grants paid	Accounts document
year to 31 March 2021	£166,627	£122,809	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2021
year to 31 March 2022	£165,961	£142,650	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2022
year to 31 March 2023	£248,053	£203,261	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2023
year to 31 March 2024	£388,212	£310,530	—	Accounts for year to 31 March 2024
year to 31 March 2025	£237,434	£290,128	£18,360	Accounts for year to 31 March 2025

Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.