DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAKEFIELD

Registered charity 1095861 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the Christian Faith in our city, the UK and around the world to provide support to the aged, sick and needy and to provide education on the basis of christian principles.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Amateur Sport · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£357k
Latest spending
£388k
Registered
2003
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £30,916 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total reserves decreasing from £349,575 to £318,659. The trustees consider the charity to be in a stable position with adequate assets to continue its activities and meet its obligations. The charity maintains a reserves policy aiming to hold three months of building loan repayments in savings.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months of the cost of the building loan repayments (held: £319k)
We endeavour to keep 3 months of the cost of the building loan repayments in savings.
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Ministers received stipends on a self-employed basis: I Critchley £39,900; W Critchley £24,000.
No trustees have received any remuneration, either in the current year or the prior year, except that the Ministers received a stipend on a self employed basis as set out below. I Critchley and W Critchley received a stipend for carrying out pastoral work, paid on a self employed basis, in the sum of £39,900 (2023: £42,700) and £24,000 (2023: £23,600) respectively. — page 14
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Note 16
During the year members of Rev. I Critchley's family were both employed and provided services to the Charity. The total payments were £29,719 (2023: £28,920) and included assistance and admin. support to the Minister and Charity provided by Rev. I Critchley's wife and assistance, admin. support, book-keeping and accountancy services provided by Rev. I Critchley's daughter. — page 20
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

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 titlein 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: City Of Wakefield · Congo · Czech Republic · India · Malawi · Nottingham City · Poland · Sri Lanka · Zambia

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£357k£388k
31/12/2023£347k£372k
31/12/2022£320k£346k
31/12/2021£334k£339k
31/12/2020£365k£324k

Common questions

Is DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAKEFIELD financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net outgoing resource of £30,916 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total reserves decreasing from £349,575 to £318,659. The trustees consider the charity to be in a stable position with adequate assets to continue its activities and meet its obligations. The charity maintains a reserves policy aiming to hold three months of building loan repayments in savings. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAKEFIELD£357k0unclearno doubt
TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH FY2025£141k£30,001 - £40,0000aboveno doubt
DESTINY CHRISTIAN CENTRE MINISTRIES FY2023£168k0belowno doubt
DESTINY APOSTOLIC CHURCH INTERNATIONAL FY2025£180k0unclearno doubt
REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, TRUE VINE CENTRE FY2025£147k0unclearno doubt
THE WHARFEDALE VINEYARD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP FY2025£357k0unclearno doubt

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