BLACK COUNTRY ORTHODOX TRUST

Registered charity 1082272 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BCOT, GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD

Parish in Walsall, West Midlands, of the Orthodox Church in the Ecumenical Patriarchate under the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN 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

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: Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £37,702 at the end of the financial year, an increase from the previous year's £20,615. The trustees note that the main risk to the organisation is a reduction of income and intend to increase reserves by reviewing overheads and increasing income through rent and donations. The charity received £97,724 in income against payments of £80,637, resulting in a net incoming resource of £17,087.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brandon Scott-Omenkachair
• CHRYSTELLA SERGI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Florin Mihaila
• Florina Alina Clewer
• Gregory Wittwer
• Irina Elena Rollins
• MARIANA MIHAELA ISPAS
• Nicolas Georgiou
• Ognyan Dachev
• Steven Rollins
• Tatiana Vasiliou

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

Operates in: Birmingham City · Coventry City · Dudley · Sandwell · Solihull · Staffordshire · Walsall · Warwickshire · Wolverhampton · Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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