THE FRENCH PROTESTANT CHURCH OF LONDON

Registered charity 1070623 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Church exists to advance the Christian religion primarily towards the French-speaking community in the United Kingdom. It makes charitable payments to charitable organisations.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY BEARING WITNESS OF THE GOSPEL IN THE TRADITION OF THE CONFESSION OF FAITH DRAWN UP AT PARIS IN 1559 (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE CONFESSION) AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH PRIMARILY TOWARDS THE FRENCH SPEAKING COMMUNITY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. THE DISCIPLINE ECCLESIASTIQUE OF 1641, THE REGLEMENTS DU CONSISTOIRE OF 1754, THE REGLEMENTS DES ANCIENS OF 1767 AND SUBSEQUENT REGLEMENTS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO TOGETHER AS THE REGLEMENTS) FORM THE HISTORICAL BASIS OF THE CHURCH'S PRACTICE AND DOCTRINE AND ITS ADHERENCE TO THE REGLEMENTS IS DECLARED AND AFFIRMED INSOFAR AS THE CONSISTORY DECIDES THEM TO BE APPROPRIATE TO CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with free unrestricted reserves of £603.5k, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of approximately £200k (one year of recurring expenditure). Total income increased to £238.3k from £196.9k in the prior year, driven by higher grants and rental income, while total expenditure decreased to £153.1k from £208.9k. The trustees consider there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• 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
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Thibault Lavergnechair
• ANNE BESSON ROBERTS
• Benedicte FOUGIER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fabien Lerede
• Ghislain Brice Leugue Yomba
• John Bevil Hagg
• Nicolas Michel Raynaud
• Phoebe May Woods
• Roxane Jardon

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Benedicte FOUGIER — trustee here and at THE FRENCH HUGUENOT CHURCH OF LONDON CHARITABLE TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

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

• REDEMPTION CHURCH LONDON income £139k
• LONDON CENTRAL CHURCH income £92k
• THE LONDON FULL GOSPEL CENTRAL CHURCH income £978k
• THE LONDON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £73k
• THE LORD'S PENTECOSTAL CHURCH INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £26k
• WEST LONDON FAMILY CHURCH income £73k

Side by side with its peers

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