PLYMOUTH VINEYARD

Registered charity 1102919 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Worship services, midweek housegroups, youth and children's work, student events, community events, Alpha courses, parenting and marriage courses, drop-in centre providing for families in need, supporting the poor, sick and marginalised in the local community

Objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE VINEYARD CHURCHES UK STATEMENT OF FAITH, VALUES, PRIORITIES, PRACTICES AND LEADERSHIP STANDARDS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN PLYMOUTH 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 AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.B) THE RELIEF OF THE POOR AND NEEDY, THE SICK AND ELDERLY IN PLYMOUTH 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 IN PLYMOUTH AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: PLYMOUTH AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £5,445 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted reserves of £4,337. The trustees consider these current unrestricted reserves to be lower than their stated policy target of three months' expenditure, noting that the ideal level would be equivalent to £19,203 based on average monthly unrestricted expenditure of £6,401.

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 6 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04942055

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Plymouth Vineyard (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• CLAYTON, Peter — director, appointed 02/12/2025on trustee list
• DOREY, Elizabeth Eve — director, appointed 07/03/2023on trustee list
• COWDERY, Rick — director, appointed 21/09/2021not on trustee list
• WHITE, Tracey — director, appointed 21/09/2021on trustee list
• COOPER, Alex Louis — secretary, appointed 01/11/2018

Official officers record.

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

Register events

• Transferred assets to another charity (23/12/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Andrew Cowderychair
• ARTHUR W GOODE
• Elizabeth Dorey
• Peter Clayton
• Tracey White

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

Operates in: Devon · Plymouth City

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 CARDIFF VINEYARD.

• CARDIFF VINEYARD income £1.2m
• GRACE VINEYARD CHURCH income £101k
• MANCHESTER VINEYARD income £653k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST NEW BOROUGH AND LEIGH, WIMBORNE income £627k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREW, PLYMOUTH income £500k
• COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £209k

Side by side with its peers

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