WOODLANDS GROUP OF CHURCHES

Registered charity 1125029 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Woodlands Church, Woodlands Church Family

Partnerships with overseas Christian missionaries & organisationsCity & Community Outreach activities and eventsGathered Church services & events for the general publicServices, events and programmes for Children & YouthServices, events, programmes & community living opportunities for StudentsProgrammes of Teaching & DiscipleshipPastoral Care for those of any age or background

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £941,067, which is within the trustees' stated target range of £757,974 to £1,136,960. Total income decreased to £2,319,581 from £2,727,385 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £1,918,934. The trustees confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient reserves to meet future challenges.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Western Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• David Mitchell — Senior Leader of Woodlands Church Family (source)
• Ed Marsh — Chair of Trustees (source)
• Rachel Riddall — Senior Leader (source)
• Nigel Savage — Senior Leader (source)
• Abby Harvey — Executive Lead for the Senior Leaders (source)
• Jake Perrins — Associate Pastor (source)
• Clare Thompson — Associate Pastor (source)
• Jack Saunders — Senior Youth 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• EDWARD JAMES MARSH FCA DCHAchair
• Alison Dawson
• Amanda Addison
• DAVID MITCHELL
• David Roderick
• Robert James Farrell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rupert James David Vernalls
• TIMOTHY DOBSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• William Matthews

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WOODFORD EVANGELICAL CHURCH.

• WOODFORD EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £119k
• THE WOODLANDS TRUST income £246k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS WOODSIDE PARK income £1.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALL SAINTS WOODFORD WELLS income £1.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PATRICK, WALLINGTON income £351k
• MOLD MISSION AREA income £308k

Side by side with its peers

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