THE LIFE CHURCH - MAIDSTONE

Registered charity 1123130 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Provision of spiritual and helpful support: community activities including youth clubs; children's clubs; mothers' and toddlers' clubs; visiting into various prisons in Kent; meetings for all ages; provide meeting/conference facilities for Alcoholics Anonymous and other organisations.

Objects

The objects of the Company are for the benefit of the public ("the 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 directors 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 directors from time to time think fit; and (c) to advance education in such ways and in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the directors from time to time may think fit.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Recreation · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £43,237 for the year, with total unrestricted funds standing at £121,198. This exceeds the trustees' stated reserves policy target of £35,000, which represents three months of unrestricted expenditure. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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
• 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
• 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

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

• Christopher Ekechair
• Cecil Marke
• David Thompson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Heather Gleave
• JENNIFER BLAIR RHODES
• Peter Jackson
• Priscilla Kyohairwe

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

Operates in: Kent

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 LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES.

• LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES income £1.6m
• MAIDSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH income £144k
• LIFE CHURCH WIRRAL income £436k
• LIFE CHURCH SHERINGHAM income £199k
• LIFE CHURCH income £176k
• NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE (CROYDON) income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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