THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED

Registered charity 1127720 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UK

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.

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

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

Registered contact address: East Riding of Yorkshire, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £7,600,346 against a policy target of up to one year of operations, which the trustees consider sufficient. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £582,385 for the year, significantly higher than the previous year's £49,343, driven largely by investment gains. The auditors confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's 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 audited by Smailes Goldie. 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 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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 02777096

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.

• CURTIS, Philip George — director, appointed 14/10/2024on trustee list
• SUTTON, Hazel Ann — director, appointed 09/05/2024on trustee list
• PLANT, Keith Leslie, Rev. — director, appointed 01/01/2024on trustee list
• COULTER, William Calvin, Rev. — director, appointed 06/04/2023on trustee list
• JAMES, Digby Lawson, Dr — director, appointed 19/01/2021on trustee list
• STEPHENSON, Gilbert Frederick — director, appointed 15/10/2013on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Philip James — director, appointed 26/09/2000on trustee list
• EVANS, Gwynne Martin, Revd — director, appointed 14/09/1999on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

85 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (78 freehold); recorded price paid £1.6m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.0 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (65% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/12/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr DIGBY LAWSON JAMES · trustee of 2 other charities
• Gilbert Stephenson
• Hazel Sutton Mrs
• PHILIP JAMES WILLIAMS
• Philip Curtis
• Rev Gwynne Evans · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Keith Leslie Plant

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Dr DIGBY LAWSON JAMES — trustee here and at CHARITIES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE UNAFFILIATED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.

• THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES income £188k
• WOODFORD EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £119k
• STROUD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £110k
• CHARITIES ADMINISTERED IN CONNEXION WITH THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES income £105k
• EAST LONDON CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CENTRE income £135k
• THE CHRIST APOSTOLIC CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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