KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1106273 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PETERBOROUGH COMMUNITY CHURCH

Advancement of the Christian Faith, Relief of persons who are poor and needy and the advancement of education on the basis of Christian principals.

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEF OF THE COMPANY FROM TIME TO TIME AGREED AND THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE COUNTY OF CAMBRIDGESHIRE AND ELSEWHERE BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER INCLUDING (BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION THE PREACHING AND PROCLAMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND THE PRINCIPLES OF PASTORALS CARE OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE INCLUDING VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDINGS OR TAPES AND BY ANY OTHER MEDIA WHICH IS OR MAY BECOME AVAILABLE.3.2 THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK.3.3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE BASIS OF CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING THE PROVISION OF SUCH EDUCATION IN ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE GENERAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS ON THE BASIS OF SUCH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLE.

Area of benefit: CAMBRIDGESHIRE

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is debt-free following the repayment of its mortgage in January 2024 and holds unrestricted funds of £1.23 million, which exceeds its policy target of three months' expenditure. The trustees report that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties identified by the auditor.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Financial Conduct Authority. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• 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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dave Smith — Senior Pastor (source)
• Karen Smith — Co-senior Pastor (source)
• Sally Duffy — Executive Pastor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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: 6.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr DAVID ANDREW SMITHchair
• ADERONKE LYDIA OPAYINKA
• Matthew Negus
• NORMAN PASKIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• SAMSON OLUWASINA ABIOYE · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Leicestershire · Peterborough City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE C3 CHURCH.

• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m
• TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k
• THE KING'S CHURCH DURHAM income £571k
• ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH SUTTON COLDFIELD income £203k
• King's Community Church, Lancaster income £111k
• KING'S CHURCH (MILTON KEYNES) income £233k

Side by side with its peers

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