ST MARY AND ST ABRAAM COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH

Registered charity 1003739 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · repeated filing default (register status)

The charity provides support for the Christian Coptic community

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIGION OF THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE SOUTH OF ENGLAND.

Area of benefit: SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Brighton and Hove, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2022 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,236,906, which is above the stated policy target of £150,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £47,660 for the year, having raised £615,139 in total income against £567,479 in expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2022 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knill James LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Investment
• Risk management
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 06/07/2023, 248 days after the 31/10/2022 due date).

3 further annual returns are past their due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (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: 28.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• AKRAM ABRAHAM
• GAMAL KHALIL
• KAMAL BUTROS

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

Operates in: East Sussex · West Sussex

Income and spending

Common questions

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