Lyonsdown Church Partnership

Registered charity 1110881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRIENDS OF HOLY TRINITY LYONSDOWN, HOLY TRINITY LYONSDOWN TRUST, Hope Church Barnet, Lyonsdown Church

Operation of Lyonsdown Church.Provision of accommodation for Christian workers.

Objects

The Charity's objects (the Objects) are the advancement of the Christian faith:(a) in the district of New Barnet in the London Borough of Barnet and surrounding districts; and(b) through grants to worldwide Gospel partners.

Area of benefit: THE PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, LYONSDOWN AND SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state a net operating surplus of £234,698 for the year, with unrestricted reserves held at £93,979. This reserve level is below the charity's stated policy target of £280,000, which is calculated to cover six months of running expenses and mortgage repayments. The charity holds significant cash reserves (£849,066) but carries a mortgage liability of £1,000,000.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £1.9m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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 (25/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard James Hallchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Robert FRY
• David Tsu-Long LEE
• JOHN MALCOLM GOVEY
• JOHN ROBERT NICHOLS
• Mark BIRRI
• William Henry RUGG

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LYONSDOWN COMMUNITY TRUST.

• LYONSDOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £127k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF COMBE DOWN, BATH income £724k
• SYLVANUS LYSONS CHARITY income £354k
• ST. PAUL'S, FURZEDOWN income £132k
• The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Lancing with Coombes income £136k
• CHURCHDOWN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £203k

Side by side with its peers

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