SPURGEONS COLLEGE

Registered charity 1096721 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the Christian religion in accordance with the beliefs and practices of Baptists and the interpretation of such beliefs and practices usually called evangelical, in particular through the provision of education, training, vocational peparation and support to Christians for mission and ministry.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a deficit of £2,239,201 for the year ended 31 July 2024, with unrestricted free reserves falling to £232,793, which is significantly below the governors' stated policy target of £1,587,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity is heavily reliant on a prospective partnership and fundraising campaign to secure resources, acknowledging a material uncertainty regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2023) → material uncertainty (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Insolvency history (Companies House)

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04418151

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.

• STOKLEY, Helen, Rev — director, appointed 10/07/2025on trustee list
• MHLANGA, Charmaine — director, appointed 14/01/2021on trustee list
• WHITE, Michael — director, appointed 19/11/2019on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Jonathan Page, Rev — director, appointed 01/04/2019on trustee list
• SHERRINGHAM, Neil Anthony — director, appointed 01/02/2019on trustee list
• DAVISON, Stuart William — director, appointed 23/07/2015on trustee list
• STOKLEY, Helen May — secretary, appointed 06/01/2014

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (74% 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: 7.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charmaine Mhlanga · trustee of 1 other charity
• Helen Stokley
• Michael White
• Neil Anthony Sherringham · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jonathan Page Edwards · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stuart Davison

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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.

Charities like this

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• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
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Side by side with its peers

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