THE HULL VINEYARD TRUST

Registered charity 1102782 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of The Hull Vineyard is to extend the Kingdom of God by drawing people into a relationship with Jesus Christ through its activities.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN HULL AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND OTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AN ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY;B) THE RELIEF OF THE POOR, THE NEEDY, THE SICK AND THE ELDERLY AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN HULL AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;C) THE FURTHERANCE OF RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR PUBLIC EDUCATION INCLUDING BUT NOT WITHOUT LIMITATION THE PROVISION OF LIFE SKILLS TO THOSE IN NEED IN HULL AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Hull, City of, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £1,398,815, with unrestricted reserves rising to £255,794. The charity reports a net income of £95,825 for the year, supported by incoming resources of £672,303. The trustees confirm the charity is appropriate to maintain reserves equivalent to three months' costs, indicating no material uncertainty regarding going concern.

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 handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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 05039618

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.

• PETERSON-JOHANSSON, Mark Andreas — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• LOVE, Nilufar — director, appointed 21/06/2022on trustee list
• BELL, Thomas James — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• KENNEDY, Ruth Mary-Ellen, Dr — director, appointed 14/09/2021on trustee list
• CLARKE, John David Gordon — director, appointed 01/01/2020on trustee list
• FARLEY, Janice Lucy — director, appointed 24/04/2016on trustee list
• WHITELOCK, Christopher Michael John — director, appointed 11/10/2005on trustee list
• WATSON, Fiona Mary — secretary, appointed 24/03/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (99% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER WHITELOCKchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Ruth Kennedy
• Janice Farley
• John Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mark Peterson-Johansson
• Nilufar Love
• Thomas Bell

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

Operates in: East Riding Of Yorkshire

Income and spending

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST.

• THE MILK AND HONEY TRUST income £346k
• HOPE VINEYARD SUNDERLAND income £212k
• THE VINEHILL TRUST income £567k
• HILLINGDON PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £191k
• BRICKNELL GOSPEL HALL TRUST income £236k
• Vineyard Global Council Trust Limited income £270k

Side by side with its peers

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