LARKFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1120956 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

2 meetings/week for fellowship, worship and bible teaching. Weekly Youth/Children's/Elderly clubs. Work with Church and Schools Together (CAST) provide Safe Space and Mentoring. Food bank. Community Alpha Course. Building available free of charge for other community groups/schools e.g. girl guides, weekly coffee morning for childminders. Approx.10% funds given for missions / charities.

Objects

A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; ANDC) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHURCH COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED IN PRACTICE LARKFIELD, AYLESFORD, MALLING, LEYBOURNE, DITTON, SNODLAND, MAIDSTONE, KENT.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overspend of £8,440 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in total reserves from £104,047 to £95,607. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirmed that sufficient surplus funds were available in the current account to cover the overspend and outstanding Gift Aid claims, indicating adequate liquidity to continue operations.

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 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.

• 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ANDREW HAYTONchair
• Paul Martin Jacobs
• ROGER ANTHONY BEDFORD
• STEVEN FREDERICK JOHNSON

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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