LIFE CHURCH SHERINGHAM

Registered charity 1069354 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NEW WINE CHURCH, NEW WINE CHURCH SHERINGHAM TRUST

The Church has held regular meetings for worship, prayer, teaching and evangelism, and works closely with other local churches and newfrontiers. It provides support to the YESU project, and is now renovating a centrally based building to provide a meeting place for the Church and for community use. In anticipation of this exiting new season, the Church has renamed itself as LIFE CHURCH.

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Latest income

£199k

Latest spending

£137k

Registered

1998

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,238,106, which the trustees consider adequate for ongoing commitments. The charity reports a net income surplus of £62,759 for the year and confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Financial health is supported by income primarily from donations, with total expenditure of £136,572.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Richard Allen received salary of £35,200.

“R Allen, Church Leader, Project Manager and Trustee, received salary for his employed role in line with the Trust Deed and as commonly occurs for such charities as the Charity Commission is aware. This totalled £35,200 in the year.” — page 14

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Register events

Received assets from another charity (03/01/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

MR R A ALLENchair
Clive Eric Howard
MR D P FISHER
MR S F ISSITT
Mark Richmond Fox

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

Operates in: Norfolk

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/07/2025	£199k	£137k
31/07/2024	£154k	£148k
31/07/2023	£228k	£147k
31/07/2022	£160k	£91k
31/07/2021	£139k	£90k

Common questions

Is LIFE CHURCH SHERINGHAM financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,238,106, which the trustees consider adequate for ongoing commitments. The charity reports a net income surplus of £62,759 for the year and confirms it has adequate resources to continue as a going concern. Financial health is supported by income primarily from donations, with total expenditure of £136,572. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
CHURCH REVITALISATION TRUST	1	£46k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES.

LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES income £1.6m
LIFE CHURCH (EUROPE) income £1.2m
LIFE CHURCH (CENTRAL ENGLAND) income £239k
LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH income £182k
LIFECHURCH MANCHESTER income £979k
LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH (WARWICKSHIRE) income £168k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
LIFE CHURCH SHERINGHAM	£199k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES FY2024	£1.6m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LIFE CHURCH (EUROPE) FY2025	£1.2m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LIFE CHURCH (CENTRAL ENGLAND) FY2024	£239k	Under £60,000	unclear	—	no doubt
LIFE CHANGERS CHURCH FY2025	£182k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LIFECHURCH MANCHESTER FY2024	£979k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.