CITYGATE CHURCH

Registered charity 1117985 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOURNEMOUTH FAMILY CHURCH, BOURNEMOUTH FAMILY CHURCH (NEW COVENANT CHURCH BOURNEMOUTH)

To advance the Christian religion, to proclaim and further the gospel of God the Father, the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and to preach and teach the Christian faith.

Objects

3 THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE (IN BOURNEMOUTH AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT).A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS SET OUT IN THE SCHEDULE TO THE MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION AND TO PROCLAIM AND FURTHER THE GOSPEL OF GOD AND OF HIS SON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO PREACH AND TEACH THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AND PERSONS IN NEED BY VIRTUE OF AGE OR SOCIAL OR ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER.C) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION WHETHER OF CHILDREN (ABOVE OR BELOW COMPULSORY SCHOOL AGE) OR OF ADULTS.D) TO FURTHER SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: IN BOURNEMOUTH AND OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGOM AND THE WORLD.

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

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

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £203,186 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in free reserves of £40,099. This reserve level is below the trustees' stated policy target of three to six months of regular giving income. The trustees attribute the low reserves to significant investment in fixed assets for the new Southbourne site and note that sufficient resources remain to continue activities for the next twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "below" (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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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 05899708
• Trading subsidiary: CITYGATE EVENTS LTD Companies House 07734479

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Russ White — Lead Elder (source)
• Tim Francis — Elder - Teaching and Pastoral (source)
• Sean Theunissen — Elder - Operations and Worship (source)
• Lanre Yusuf — Elder - Prayer (source)
• Priscilla Roxburgh — SLT - Leadership Development & Social Action (source)
• Peter Roxburgh — Elder - Leadership Development, Poole & Life Groups (source)
• Zac Dixon — Elder - Southbourne (source)
• Mark Truesdale — Chair & Strategy (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.

• TRUESDALE, Mark Robert, Dr — director, appointed 27/06/2023on trustee list
• BEAL, Nicholas — director, appointed 31/10/2018on trustee list
• WHITE, Russell James — director, appointed 24/05/2016on trustee list
• THEUNISSEN, Sean Desmond — director, appointed 08/08/2006on trustee list
• THEUNISSEN, Sean Desmond — secretary, appointed 16/07/2013

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £525k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.4 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/02/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JAMES STUART SALWAY
• Mark Truesdale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Beal
• Russell White
• Sean Theunissen

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

Operates in: Bournemouth

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 CITY GATES CHURCH.

• CITY GATES CHURCH income £76k
• CITY GATE FOUNDATION income £157k
• CHURCHGATE CHARITABLE TRUST income £313k
• CITY GATE CHURCH, UK income £115k
• THE CITY COMMUNITY CHURCH (EXETER) CHARITABLE TRUST income £56k
• CITYGATES CHURCH NORWICH income £686k

Side by side with its peers

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