HIGH STREET CHAPEL HOPTON

Registered charity 1127666 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objectives are set out in the trust deed. These are summarised as being the followinga. To organise and carry out a "breaking of bread "service (commonly known as Communion)b. To preach and teach the Gospel of Godc. And to use the premises for such purposes, civil or religious, which the members of High Street Chapel consider fit and relevant to carry out its overall objectives

Objects

UPON TRUST FOR THE USE AND BENEFIT OF SUCH PERSONS IN HOPTON AND ITS VICINITY AS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME ASSEMBLE THEMSELVES TOGETHER IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS IN CHURCH FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PURPOSE OF PARTAKING OF BREAD AND WINE IN REMEMBRANCE OF HIM AND FOR THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF GOSPEL OF GOD AS CONTAINED IN THE BIBLE SUCH PERSONS HOLDING THE ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS OF THE SAVED AND THE EXTERNAL EXISTENCE AND SUFFERING OF THE LOST THE EQUALITY OF THE SON WITH THE FATHER AND THE PERSONALITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND TO PERMIT THE SAID PREMISES TO BE USED OCCUPIED AND ENJOYED BY SUCH PERSONS AND FOR SUCH PURPOSES WHETHER RELIGIOUS OR CIVIL AS THE MALES BELONGING TO THE SAID ASSEMBLY IN ANY CHURCH MEETING SHALL BY ANY RESOLUTION FROM TIME TO TIME DIRECT OR APPOINT BUT IN CASE THE SAID ASSEMBLY SHALL CEASE TO MEET AND OF WHICH THE DISCONTINUANCE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP AT THEIR USUAL MEETING HOUSE FOR THE SPACE OF 12 CALENDAR MONTHS TOGETHER SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THEN UPON TRUST FURTHER TO USE THE SAID PREMISES FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREACHING THE GOSPEL OR TEACHING THE YOUNG IN HOPTON AND ITS VICINITY BY SUCH PERSONS AS THE TRUSTEES OR ANY TWO OF THEM SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME APPOINT AND IF THOUGHT FIT AS A RESIDENCE FOR ANY MINISTERS OR TEACHERS.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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Registered contact address: West Suffolk, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £9,752 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by donations, legacies, and rental income. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves cover over six months of total outgoings, which they deem ample. The charity operates on a receipts and payments basis due to income being below £250,000.

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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• GRAEME MAURICE THOMAS
• GRAHAM PAUL JACK · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK ALISTAIR RUDBECK CLEVELAND
• MARK ARTHUR WALLACE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Tanya Dawson
• Tim Holden
• Wendy Banks

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

Operates in: Norfolk · Suffolk

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• HIGH PRAISE CHAPEL income £73k
• HIGH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH income £127k
• HOPE CHURCH, IPSWICH income £932k
• THE HIGHTOWER CHURCH income £112k
• HOPE CHURCH NEWCASTLE income £58k
• HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH AINTREE income £158k

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