MOUNT ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (FREEDOM ARENA)

Registered charity 1126300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity's current activities are: Church services, Organising various missionary activities, Community and outreach events, welfare support to members and organising conferences and events.

Objects

3.1 THE NAME OF THE CHURCH IS MOUNT ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (FREEDOM ARENA) (OR ANY OTHER NAME CHOSEN BY RESOLUTION OF THE TRUSTEES)3.2 THE OBJECT OF THE CHURCH ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC:3.2.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;3.2.2 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 TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; AND3.2.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE TEACHING OF THE YORUBA LANGUAGE AND CULTURE TO YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE LOCAL

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds decreased to £2,173,798 from £2,230,526 in the prior year, resulting in a net movement in funds of a loss of £57,928. The trustees report that current free reserves of £45,859 are below their stated policy target of three months of annual expenditure (£211,449), though they maintain a reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Stephen Michael Associates. Discloses 4 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 09/04/2024, 40 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 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 (75% 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

• ABIODUN HEZEKIAH OYINLOLA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Adebiyi Oladipo Lawal
• OLANREWAJU JODA · trustee of 3 other charities
• ROTIMI WILLIAM AWOPEJU · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bexley · Greenwich · Lewisham · Southwark

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ZION WAY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.

• ZION WAY MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £25k
• ZION PENTECOSTAL INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES income £40k
• CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH MOUNT ZION INTERNATIONAL income £156k
• MOUNT ZION PENTECOSTAL CHURCH BEDFORD income £36k
• MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, CARDIGAN income £147k
• MOUNT ZION-THE PRAYER MOUNTAIN income £154k

Side by side with its peers

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