Grace Church, Bolton

Registered charity 1049144 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOLTON FAMILY CHURCH, GRACE CHURCH BOLTON, KINGS CHURCH BOLTON

Church Related Activities

Objects

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION 2. TO ASSIST AGED PERSONS AND PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM. 3. TO ADVANCE EDUCATION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £26,989 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total incoming resources of £365,619 against total expenditure of £338,630. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £50,654, which is above the stated policy target of approximately £37,341. The charity holds significant fixed assets valued at £1,928,742, though one subsidiary fund (Hope Church) is in deficit due to building purchase financing.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• 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
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Samantha Jane Prout
• Eleanor Spielmann
• JOHN JAMES MCGREGOR · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jospeh Hoaghton
• Mark David Anthony Gordon
• Mark Taylor
• Rajitha Edirisinghe

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

Operates in: Bolton · Lancashire · Zambia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRIDGE CHURCH BOLTON.

• THE BRIDGE CHURCH BOLTON income £668k
• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £85k
• GRACE CHURCH SALISBURY income £392k
• GRACE CHURCH DULWICH income £590k
• CLAREMONT CHURCH BOLTON income £105k
• GRACE CHURCH MANCHESTER income £184k

Side by side with its peers

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