CHURCHES TOGETHER IN WILLENHALL

Registered charity 1093921 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRIDGING THE GAP, CTIW

The Charity leads cooperative working between eleven churches in Willenhall, Walsall. Our major activity, involving more than 90% of our finances, is the running of a community resource centre in the shopping area of our town. We provide various forms of help and support to any in the community, including signposting, debt and money advice, bereavement support, advocacy and a listening ear.

Objects

1 TO SPREAD AND INCREASE THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRISTIANITY IN AND AROUND THE WILLENHALL AREA2 THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, SICKNESS AND DISTRESS FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF THEIR FINANCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES, SICKNESS OR SOCIAL ISOLATION, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE PROVISION OF AND SIGNPOSTING TOWARDS ADVICE, INFORMATION AND COUNSELLING.

Area of benefit: WILLENHALL.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is preparing for an orderly and managed closure due to a marked downturn in shop income and the cessation of support from the Methodist Church. While the trustees report maintaining financial stability through prudent management, they note that reserves are steadily depleting as payments have exceeded receipts for the year. The charity has sufficient safeguards in place to respond to the likely closure of its two shops.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ROGER FREDERICK WILCOXchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Eileen Joy Wilcox
• Geoffrey Leslie Ward · trustee of 1 other charity
• Kerene Mckeown
• Mrs Kathryn MacMahon · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Walsall

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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