GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ST. ATHANASIOS, CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1040908 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX FAITH, GREEK LANGUAGE, CIVILISATION, IDEALS AND PUBLIC EDUCATION.TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITION OF THE LIFE OF THE PARISHIONER OF CAMBRIDGE AND THE SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.

Objects

(1)TO PRESERVE AND PROPAGATE THE CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX FAITH AND TRADITIONS AS CONTAINED IN HOLY SCRIPTURE, AS PRACTISED IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH, AS CONFIRMED BY THE ECUMENICAL AND LOCAL COUNCILS AND AS INTERPRETED PRESERVED AND TAUGHT BY THE GREAT CHURCH OF CHRIST, THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE. (11)TO PRESERVE THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IN DIVINE WORSHIP AND IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL LIFE OF THE FAITHFUL, AND TO MINISTER TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH CANONICAL SERVICES CONDUCTED ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF THE GREAT CHURCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY CANONICAL PRIESTS, AND THROUGH SERMONS AND THROUGH CATECHISM AND GREEK LANGUAGE SCHOOLS. (111)TO ESTABLISH CHURCHES FOR THE WORSHIP OF THE TRIUNE GOD AND SCHOOLS FOR THE TEACHING OF GREEK ORTHODOX EDUCATION. (1V)TO RECEIVE INTO THE ORTHODOX FAITH, BY BAPTISM OR CHRISMATION, ALL THOSE WHO FREELY DECIDE AND SINCERELY DESIRE TO ADOPT THE ORTHODOX FAITH, AND TO LIVE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS SPIRITUAL AND MORAL TEACHING. (V)TO UNDERTAKE PHILANTHROPIC WORK FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO NEED PROTECTION, ASSISTANCE AND MEDICAL CARE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE WELFARE OF THE POOR AND FOR THE BURIAL OF THOSE GREEKS WHO PASS AWAY WITHOUT FINANCIAL MEANS.

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE, CAMBRIDGE AND EAST-WEST ANGLIA

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,360,139, which represent its total net assets. The trustees report adequate resources for the foreseeable future, confirming a going concern basis. The charity generated a net surplus of £22 for the year, with total income of £55,462 against total expenditure of £55,440.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ARCHBISHOP NIKITAS LIOULIASchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Andreas Socratous Constantinides
• George Gregory Pippas
• NICHOLAS DEMOS HARRIS
• Rev Costakis Andreou Garibaldinos

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire

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