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THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH AUGHTON, LANCASHIRE

Registered charity 1129036 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRIST CHURCH AUGHTON PCC

Religious activitiesProviding facilities for religious and community activitiesProviding financial and/or practical help to some organisations and individuals

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of 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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Lancashire, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£381k
Latest spending
£360k
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income by £18,000 for the year, resulting in a drawdown on reserves. The charity reports free/unrestricted reserves of minus £15,000, which is below the stated policy target of £30,000. Despite this deficit, the trustees have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves position: below the charity's own stated reserves policy
“the actual free reserves at 31st December 2025 were minus £15k”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Payments to trustees: Two trustees received payments for roles other than trustee: one as a Youth Worker (£5,000) and one as an Administrator (£2,720).
“Whilst no payments were made to trustees for their roles as trustees. Two were paid in respect of their other roles, one as a Youth Worker (£5,000) and one as an Administrator (£2,720).” — page 19
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

  • Volunteers: 115
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

  • Volunteers: 50
  • Government income: £50,750 — grants £50,750 (5); 13% of the £380,046 total gross income on the same return

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

  • Volunteers: 50

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2025£381k£360k
31/12/2024£380k£322k
31/12/2023£286k£311k
31/12/2022£404k£273k
31/12/2021£259k£298k

Common questions

Is THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH AUGHTON, LANCASHIRE financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that expenditure exceeded income by £18,000 for the year, resulting in a drawdown on reserves. The charity reports free/unrestricted reserves of minus £15,000, which is below the stated policy target of £30,000. Despite this deficit, the trustees have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
YOUNG HARROW FOUNDATION1£15k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FRINTON.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH AUGHTON, LANCASHIRE£381k—0below—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FRINTON FY2025£202k—0above—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH ROXETH (HARROW) FY2025£321k—0unclear—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF PORTISHEAD FY2025£314k—0above—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF EUXTON FY2025£184k——above—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN BUCKHURST HILL FY2025£410k—0above—no doubt

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