EXETER NETWORK CHURCH

Registered charity 1109486 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promote and advance the Christian faith; relieve poverty, hardship, sickness and disease; and promote education and training.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ALLEVIATE SUFFERING ACCORDING TO THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE VALUES AND TENETS OF THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION SUMMARISED IN RESOLUTION 11 OF THE THIRD LAMBETH CONFERENCE FOLLOWING THE CHICAGO-LAMBETH QUADRILATERAL NAMELY: (I) THE HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, AS 'CONTAINING ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO SALVATION,' AND AS BEING THE RULE AND ULTIMATE STANDARD OF FAITH; (II) THE APOSTLES CREED, AS THE BAPTISMAL SYMBOL; AND THE NICENE CREED, AS THE SUFFICIENT STATEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH; (III) THE TWO SACRAMENTS ORDAINED BY CHRIST HIMSELF - BAPTISM AND THE SUPPER OF THE LORD - MINISTERED WITH UNFAILING USE OF CHRIST'S WORDS OF INSTITUTION, AND OF THE ELEMENTS ORDAINED BY HIM; (IV) THE HISTORIC EPISCOPATE, LOCALLY ADAPTED IN THE METHODS OF ITS ADMINISTRATION TO THE VARYING NEEDS TO THE NATIONS AND PEOPLES CALLED OF GOD INTO THE UNITY OF HIS CHURCH.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE EXETER, DEVON.

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

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Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£419k

Latest spending

£420k

Registered

2005

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a small deficit of £861 for the year, with total income of £418,919 and total expenditure of £419,780. Unrestricted reserves stood at £104,139, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £35,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Pension scheme deficit: £4.8m

“For the Pension Builder Classic section, the valuation revealed a deficit of £4.8m on the ongoing assumptions used.” — page 34

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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 policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 140

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 110

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 50

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

Andrew Edward Hingston
Julia Elizabeth Jolley
Mark Richard Brend
PAUL STEPHEN MORRISH · trustee of 1 other charity
TOMAS SIMON HUNT

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£419k	£420k
31/12/2024	£407k	£413k
31/12/2023	£468k	£394k
31/12/2022	£351k	£440k
31/12/2021	£432k	£388k

Common questions

Is EXETER NETWORK CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity reported a small deficit of £861 for the year, with total income of £418,919 and total expenditure of £419,780. Unrestricted reserves stood at £104,139, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of £35,000. The accounts were prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds EXETER NETWORK CHURCH?

Funders whose own accounts filings name EXETER NETWORK CHURCH as a grant recipient include NORMAN WHITELEY TRUST, THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
NORMAN WHITELEY TRUST	FY2025	£2k
THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION	FY2024	£2k
THE DAVID GIBBONS FOUNDATION	FY2025	£2k

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	08/10/2020	£6k	VSCE CMC Fund

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
SYLVANUS LYSONS CHARITY	1	£15k
THE HARPENDEN TRUST	1	£9k

Charities like this

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

CHELTENHAM NETWORK CHURCH income £79k
THE NETWORK CHURCH income £115k
EXETER VINEYARD CHURCH income £138k
RIVERSIDE CHURCH income £547k
NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £71k
EXETER MOSQUE AND CULTURAL CENTRE income £256k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
EXETER NETWORK CHURCH	£419k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
CHELTENHAM NETWORK CHURCH FY2025	£79k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE NETWORK CHURCH FY2025	£115k	£53,250	1	unclear	—	no doubt
EXETER VINEYARD CHURCH FY2025	£138k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
RIVERSIDE CHURCH FY2025	£547k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST FY2025	£71k	—	0	above	—	no doubt

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