THROUGH THE ROOF CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1087788 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHURCHES FOR ALL, DISABLED CHRISTIANS FELLOWSHIP, THROUGH THE ROOF, WHEELS FOR THE WORLD

THROUGH THE ROOF GIVES ADVICE AND PRODUCES WRITTEN RESOURCES, AS WELL AS TRAINING, TO EQUIP CHURCHES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO BE INCLUSIVE OF DISABLED PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES. WE DO THIS THROUGHOUT THE UK AND IN AFRICA.WE DONATE MOBILITY AIDS TO THOSE IN NEED IN AFRICA.OUR VISION IS TO MAKE THE GOOD NEWS OF THE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL.

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE CHRISTIAN FAITH PARTICULARLY AMONGST PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL AND OTHER DISABILITIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AS THE DIRECTORS OF THE CHARITY (HEREI00N CALLED "THE TRUSTEES") MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY. (B) TO RELIEVE AND ASSIST PERSONS WITH PHYSICAL AND OTHER DISABILITIES AND IN DOING SO TO PROMOTE THE INTEGRATION AND PARTICIPATION OF SUCH PERSONS IN CHURCH LIFE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AND TO PROMOTE AN AWARENESS OF THE NEEDS OF SUCH PERSONS AND APPROPRIATE RESPONSES TO THOSE NEEDS AMONGST CHURCHES AND CHRISTIANS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AND TO TRAIN CHRISTIANS IN WAYS OF SERVING AND HELPING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDON AND ELSEWHERE

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state the charity reported a surplus of £39,418 for the year ended 30 September 2025, with total income of £403,300 and total expenditure of £366,915. The trustees anticipate a deficit of £90,400 for the following year due to increased staffing expenditure but confirm the charity will operate as a going concern. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £524,559, which is above the stated policy target of three months' operating funds.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04201510

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Through the Roof (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LLOYD, David Matthew — director, appointed 27/02/2026on trustee list
• SAY, Amanda — director, appointed 13/10/2025on trustee list
• SIMPER, Steve — director, appointed 25/10/2024on trustee list
• DALTON, Robert — director, appointed 03/04/2019on trustee list
• HAHN, Trevor Michael — director, appointed 12/09/2012on trustee list
• ARNOLD, Carol Alice — director, appointed 20/06/2012on trustee list
• BACCHUS, Clyde Clifford — director, appointed 16/11/2011on trustee list
• MACCABE, Fiona — director, appointed 24/11/2010on trustee list
• NICHOLSON, Janet — secretary, appointed 08/12/2021

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold); recorded price paid £175k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~4.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Say
• CAROL ALICE ARNOLD · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLYDE CLIFFORD BACCHUS
• David Matthew Lloyd
• FIONA MACCABE
• Rev TREVOR MICHAEL HAHN
• Robert Dalton
• Steve Simper

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

Operates in: Ghana · India · Kenya · Mozambique · Nigeria · Tanzania · Throughout England And Wales · Uganda

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE TEN CHARITABLE TRUST income £589k
• THE ROOFTOP MINISTRIES income £396k
• TAKING GROUND income £118k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• THE ASCENSION TRUST income £983k
• RELATIONAL MISSION income £513k

Side by side with its peers

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