NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH S.E. LONDON

Registered charity 1116023 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity is involved in a number of activities including a Foodbank,Social outreach, youth work and children's work, and evangelistic activities including Alpha. In addition, teaching, ministry and support to other churches and Christian organisations in London, the UK and internationally.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.2) THE FURTHERANCE OF THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY BY THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bexley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves were £1,197,403, which is below the prior year's £1,290,805 but remains above the charity's stated policy target of three months' turnover. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Baldwin Scofield Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from unclear (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed 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
• Investing charity funds 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

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.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05854630

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• James Silley — Lead Elder (source)
• Melinda Lyons — Operations Director (source)
• Hannah Silley — One Church Ministries Director (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.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GIBBS, Rebecca Louise — director, appointed 16/10/2025on trustee list
• NENGOU, Moise Marcel Amouofo — director, appointed 27/05/2025on trustee list
• AIYEOLA, Mobolaji — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list
• LEWIS, Nicholas John — director, appointed 21/11/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~11.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE MARGARET CROZIER
• MOBOLAJI AIYEOLA
• Moise Marcel Amouofo Nengou
• NICHOLAS LEWIS
• REBECCA LOUISE GIBBS

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

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 THE NEW CHURCH.

• THE NEW CHURCH income £111k
• CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH, LONDON income £75k
• NEW LIFE CHURCH (NORTH LONDON) income £189k
• THE COMMUNITY CHURCH IN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND income £331k
• REVELATION CHURCH - LONDON income £805k
• NEWMARKET COMMUNITY CHURCH income £104k

Side by side with its peers

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