EQUIPPERS CHURCH

Registered charity 1091642 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EQUIPPERS CHURCH SURREY, JUBILEE LIFE MINISTRIES UK

The charity exists to advance the Christian faith, to relieve and advise persons who are in conditions of need and hardship, to advance Christian education in accordance with Christian principles and to promote and fulfil other such charitable purposes as the Trustees deem fit.

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

Latest income
£1.9m
Latest spending
£1.6m
Registered
2002
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds stood at £12,345,678 at the year end, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees confirm that the charity is operating on a going concern basis with adequate resources to meet its obligations as they fall due.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by jY6255.-4(7,6-0,. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Equippers Church (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income
£1.9m
Total spending
£1.6m
Reserves (reported)
£346k
Employees
17

Reported reserves equal ~2.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£1.9m£1.6m
31/12/2024£1.6m£1.4m
31/12/2023£1.4m£1.4m
31/12/2022£1.3m£1.4m
31/12/2021£1.4m£923k

Common questions

Is EQUIPPERS CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds stood at £12,345,678 at the year end, representing a net increase from the previous year. The trustees confirm that the charity is operating on a going concern basis with adequate resources to meet its obligations as they fall due. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by jY6255.-4(7,6-0,.

Government & lottery funding

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

FunderDateAmountPurpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund16/02/2012£37k"The Red Seam"

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH S.E. LONDON1£200k
SAMJO LIMITED1£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURT AND RUSHMOOR.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
EQUIPPERS CHURCH£1.9m——unclear—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURT AND RUSHMOOR FY2024£128k—0above—no doubt
EQUITABLE CHARITY TRUST FY2024£367k—0unclear—no doubt
SHEPPERTON COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2024£120kUnder £60,0000unclear—no doubt
ONE CHURCH FY2024£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt
KEC CHURCH CENTRE FY2025£209k—0above—no doubt

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