CHURCHES TOGETHER IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND

Registered charity 1113299 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CTBI

There are many different Christian churches but all have the same basic calling. To support them working together and to co-ordinate the work they each do separately Churches Together in Britain and Ireland networks specialists across the churches, arranges regular meetings of Church Representatives, provides resources and links the Churches to a wide range of inter-church organizations.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total funds of £2,016,986 at the year end, with free reserves of £882,726, which the Trustees consider adequate and in line with their policy of maintaining a minimum of £700,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity incurred a net expenditure of £120,702 before investment gains, supported by investment gains of £73,581, and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operating.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~14.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (71% 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: 2.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Graham Sparkeschair
• Dr Richard Fasunloye · trustee of 2 other charities
• GILLIAN KINGSTON
• Gemma Christina King
• LIEUT-COLONEL JONATHAN ROBERTS
• Mark James Lilley · trustee of 1 other charity
• PATRICIA WHITE
• RIGHT REV DR ROSEMARIE MALLETT · trustee of 8 other charities
• Rev Andrew Forster
• Rev Andrew John Openshaw · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Jennifer Anne Hurd
• Rev Nicholas Rothon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rt Rev Paul Hendricks · trustee of 22 other charities

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARCH DIOCESE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND.

• COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH FOUNDATION FOR THE ARCH DIOCESE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND income £1.6m
• IGLESIA NI CRISTO (CHURCH OF CHRIST) income £7.2m
• THE CHURCHES OF GOD IN UK income £1.0m
• REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, TRUE VINE CENTRE income £147k
• CHRIST CENTRAL CHURCHES WORLDWIDE income £736k
• THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (GREAT BRITAIN) income £87.8m

Side by side with its peers

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