Hope Community Church (Tameside & Glossop)

Registered charity 1129418 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MOTTRAM EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Place of worship and outreach for the community through various activities e.g cafe, youth work, kids club, and our premises are also used as a Pre-School and by an art club.

Objects

1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT2 TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE, AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH, BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held total unrestricted funds of £967,228 at the end of the year, which the trustees describe as a 'healthy reserve fund'. The charity's stated reserves policy is to retain funds equivalent to approximately two months of staff and administration costs, a target that appears to be comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barbara Verrall · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew Stephen Martin
• Peter Roderick Martin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Chorley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sandra Helen Davidson

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · South Africa · Tameside · Tanzania

Income and spending

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