LIGHT AND LIFE FREE METHODIST CHURCH EAST CORNWALL

Registered charity 1128866 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BODMIN LIGHT AND LIFE CHURCH, LIGHT AND LIFE CHURCH ST AUSTELL, LIGHT AND LIFE FMC EAST CORNWALL, ST AUSTELL FOODBANK, ST AUSTELL LIGHT AND LIFE CHURCH

Promoting and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ and enabling ordinary people to live out their faith. To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote and preserve good health through funds, goods or services of any kind including through the provision of pastoral advice and support and the advancement of education. To run St Austell Foodbank seeded by the Trussel Trust.

Objects

3.2.1 THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE FREE METHODISTCHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, DISCIPLINES AND USAGE'S OF THAT CHURCH,AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS FOR THE TIME BEING OF THE FREEMETHODIST CHURCH (AS PRESENTLY SET OUT IN THE APPENDIX TO THIS DOCUMENT) IN SUCHWAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROMTIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;3.2.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOODHEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGHTHE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ORTHE 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 ORTHE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.3.3 THE TRUSTEES MUST USE THE INCOME AND MAY USE THE CAPITAL OF THE CHURCH IN PROMOTINGTHE OBJECTS.

Area of benefit: THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD

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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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves are £105,191, which equates to 7.1 months of unrestricted fund expenditure, a level the trustees consider prudent. The charity reported a net income increase to £68,942 for the year ended 31 December 2024, up from a net expenditure in the prior year. Total net assets rose to £513,046, supported by unrestricted funds of £265,415 and restricted funds of £247,631.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Horwell
• Fay Lewry
• Peter Godfrey
• Timothy Rowe

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

Operates in: Cornwall

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIGHT AND LIFE FREE METHODIST CHURCH WEST CORNWALL.

• LIGHT AND LIFE FREE METHODIST CHURCH WEST CORNWALL income £367k
• NORTHERN DEVON FOODBANK income £236k
• THE LIFE AND LIGHT MISSIONS income £921k
• LIFE COMMUNITY CHURCH BRISTOL income £209k
• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
• CHURCH FOR ALL NATIONS INTERNATIONAL income £123k

Side by side with its peers

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