CENTRE FOR THEOLOGY AND COMMUNITY LIMITED

Registered charity 1121648 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CONTEXTUAL THEOLOGY CENTRE

Our work is primarily with Christian congregations - encouraging engagement with the implications of the faith for social justice, and collaboration with other faiths in bringing this about. A key partner in this work is Citizens UK, and its local affiliate, London Citizens.

Objects

TO ADVANCE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE TEACHINGS, TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES OF DIFFERENT FAITH COMMUNITIES INCLUDING PROMOTING GOOD RELATIONS BETWEEN PERSONS OF DIFFERENT FAITHS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING EDUCATION AND TRAINING, DEVELOPING A NETWORK IN ORDER TO SHARE GOOD PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE, BY FACILITATING SUPERVISED PLACEMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND BY ENGAGING IN RESEARCH

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE, GREATER LONDON

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £680k with expenditure of £644k, resulting in a small unrestricted deficit of £1k. Free unrestricted reserves stood at £49k, which is well above the trustees' policy target of three months' unrestricted costs (£21k). The trustees consider it appropriate to prepare the financial statements on a going concern basis as the charity can meet its day-to-day working capital requirements.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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
• 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 05848143

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.

• WATAN, Averil Branwen — director, appointed 16/12/2024on trustee list
• DEWU, Cecilia, Pastor — director, appointed 07/09/2020on trustee list
• CONANT, Vanessa Caroline, Revd — director, appointed 25/04/2018on trustee list
• DEACON, John — director, appointed 15/06/2006on trustee list

Official officers record.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (88% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Averil Watan
• JOHN DEACON
• Rev Cecilia Dewu · trustee of 2 other charities
• Vanessa Conant · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire · 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 CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH YORK.

• CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH YORK income £253k
• CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH, LONDON income £75k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD AMBASSADORS FOR LIBERTY income £20k
• THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN LONDON LIMITED income £169k
• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVANTS LIMITED income £51k
• CHAPEL & YORK UK FOUNDATION LIMITED income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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