BOGNOR VINEYARD

Registered charity 1084904 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as The Landing Place Vineyard

Bognor Vineyard is a local church, part of the national network of Vineyard Churches UK.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN BOGNOR REGIS AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF BOGNOR VINEYARD; (B) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID BOGNOR REGIS AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO THINK FIT; (C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES IN THE SAID BOGNOR REGIS AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: BOGNOR REGIS AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a satisfactory financial position with total funds of £515,354, including £488,330 in unrestricted funds. The trustees report that free reserves were £92,330, which is significantly above their stated policy target of three months' unrestricted expenditure. The charity generated a net income surplus of £64,900 for the year, allowing it to maintain adequate liquidity despite noting potential future cost pressures.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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 conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/01/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Gabrielle Sartinchair
• Ann Hamilton
• Henry Cross
• Hilda Joyce Sherwood
• Lisa Van Driel
• Lorna Earle

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

Operates in: West Sussex

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• SW LONDON VINEYARD income £621k
• GRACE VINEYARD CHURCH income £101k
• BRISTOL VINEYARD income £174k
• SOUTHEND VINEYARD income £286k
• EPSOM VINEYARD CHURCH income £276k
• THE HULL VINEYARD TRUST income £672k

Side by side with its peers

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