CITYGATE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTRE

Registered charity 1111470 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Church has continued the practice of teaching, preaching, pastoral care and reaching out to those in need with both spiritual and practical support.Community involvement has continued with the existing initiatives for children and families. Activities involving practical and social help to the community have been curtailed as work on a new community centre has begun.

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of £65,166 for the year ended 31 March 2026, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £7,081,810. The trustees confirmed the charity is a going concern with adequate resources, although the charity incurred a £246,000 corporation tax provision due to HMRC determining previous investments were non-qualifying.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baldwin Scofield Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Julian & Sharon Melfi — Senior Pastors (source)
• Cleo St Lewis — Chair of Trustees (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)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £5.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (64% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Abimbola Akinyemi Akingbolagun
• Arthur William Russell
• Cleo Amanda St Lewis
• Jason Pitter
• Nicolette Myrie

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 CITY GATE CHURCH, UK.

• CITY GATE CHURCH, UK income £115k
• GATES OF PRAISE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £218k
• GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH income £145k
• CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO income £763k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD CHRIST CHURCH CITY OF MERCY LIMITED income £133k
• CITY GATE FOUNDATION income £115k

Side by side with its peers

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