AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1129069 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Baptist Church, conducting public weekly Christian services, and providing activities and groups for the local community of central Southend i.e Playgroup, Toddler groups, youth and childrens work, mens and ladies work, adults with learning disabilities

Objects

The principal purpose of the Church is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination. The Church may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and/or other parts of the world.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity posted a net expenditure deficit of £10,737 for the year ended 31 December 2024, primarily due to unexpected energy costs and investment performance. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm the charity is a going concern, supported by unrestricted funds of £613,627 and significant fixed asset investments valued at £458,470.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOY DOROTHY ROOKE
• Jacqueline Mavis Dickenson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Litza Audrey Smith
• Pamela Jean Thompson
• Peter Thomas William Potter
• Rev Jane Amanda Guest
• STEPHEN JOHN EKINS

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

Operates in: Southend-on-sea

Income and spending

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