THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES GERRARDS CROSS WITH ST JAMES FULMER

Registered charity 1129332 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PCC OF ST JAMES GX WITH FULMER

Promoting the whole mission of the Church:Regular public worship;Pastoral work;Teaching of Christianity through sermons, courses, small groups and religious assemblies in schools;Children and youth work;Promotion of Christianity through events and meetings;Distribution of literature;Activities for senior citizens and parents and toddlers; Supporting other charitable work in the UK and overseas.

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: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a headline deficit of £33,144 for the year, which included a one-off project cost, resulting in a true underlying operating deficit of only £6,644. Total income increased by 10% to £978,433, while total expenditure rose by 13% to £975,563, primarily due to infrastructure projects. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,040,365.79 (General Fund £253,774.42 plus Designated Funds £786,648.75), which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain the going concern basis.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from Over £60,000 (FY2024) to £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2025).

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 06/12/2023, 36 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Matt Beeby — Rector (source)
• Mark Nicholas — Operations Director (source)
• Matt Beeby — PCC Chair (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW ROBERT BELL
• Bola Akinseye
• DAVID MICHAEL STEEL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Lee
• FRANCESCA HALL-DRINKWATER
• Gary James Palmer
• Heather Ashby-Rose
• Ian John Mitton
• Joan Filler
• John Young
• Lawrence Tebboth
• Mark William Nicholas
• RICHARD JOHN LAWRENCE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Craig Larner
• Rev Matthew David Beeby
• Simon Bailey
• Stephanie Jane SUMMERELL
• Thomas Kitching
• Tim Ogunleye
• Tish Littlewood
• William Coomber

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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