OXFORDSHIRE COMMUNITY CHURCHES

Registered charity 1056921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as OCC, STEPPING STONES, THE KING'S SCHOOL

To advance the Christian religion and education and to relieve poverty, hardship and distress across Oxfordshire and in many other parts of the world. This is primarily done through the activity of 11 established churches and through schools, pre-schools and outreach workers as well as supporting overseas workers.

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. 2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION. 3) TO RELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE POOR, IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK. 4) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE COUNCIL SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Registered contact address: Oxford, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's free reserves were £88,231, which is significantly below the trustees' stated policy target of £500,000. The charity reported a net movement in funds of £538,241 for the year, driven by strong income from churches and the school, despite a trading loss at its subsidiary, The King's Centre Limited. The trustees remain confident in the charity as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Oxford LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Oxfordshire Community Churches (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (54% 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: 8.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Nigel Charles Allenchair
• Dr Jansen Philip Jacob
• Dr Neil William Townsend · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN GREEN
• Richard John Ellwood · trustee of 1 other charity
• STEPHEN BURCHELL MARTIN YOUNG · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra June COLEMAN · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Belgium · Buckinghamshire · Canada · Denmark · France · Gloucestershire · Gwynedd · Hertfordshire · India · Ireland · Japan · Kenya

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KING'S CHURCH UPMINSTER.

• KING'S CHURCH UPMINSTER income £37k
• OXFORDSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST (2016) income £401k
• KING'S CHURCH, CHESSINGTON income £1.0m
• KINGS CHURCH DARLINGTON income £755k
• KINGDOM APOSTOLIC EMPOWERMENT CENTRE income £155k
• KINGS CHURCH WOKINGHAM income £135k

Side by side with its peers

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