ST MATTHEW'S AND ST OSWALD'S CHURCH AS A CHARITY

Registered charity 1129494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting the whole mission of the Church; regular worship open to all;promotion of christianity through the staging of events and meetings, distribution of literature; provision of youth activities; provision of activities for senior citizens, parents and toddlers, supporting charities 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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rugby, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£442k

Latest spending

£508k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £171,194, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain reserves in excess of two months' overall expenditure and one month of salaries. The underlying trend for revenue income and expenditure is described as almost in balance, and the trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: two month’s overall expenditure and an additional month of salaries (reserves figure: £171k)

“It is the policy of the Trustees that unrestricted funds which have not been designated for a specific use should be maintained at a level in excess of two month’s overall expenditure and an additional month of salaries.” — page 6

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Paying staff
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

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: 40
Government income: £768 — grants £768 (1); under 1% of the £441,778 total gross income on the same return

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

Volunteers: 55
Government income: £650 — grants £650 (1); under 1% of the £277,292 total gross income on the same return

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

Volunteers: 55
Government income: £500 — grants £500 (1); under 1% of the £219,605 total gross income on the same return

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

Trustees · trustee networks

ALISDAIR DOUGLAS RUSK · trustee of 1 other charity
Aaron Freeman-Powell
Andrew Henry Pickles
Ann Elizabeth Seaton
Anna Naish
Christopher Simon Haistead
DAVID KENNETH MACLELLAN · trustee of 1 other charity
Eleanor Jackson
Gillan Ruth Duncan
Joel Elliott James Rawlinson
Laura Ellen Seago
Malcolm John Wright
Mark Edward Austin
OWEN JAMES DUTTON
Raymond Leslie Wagstaffe
Susan Margaret Sydenham
Thomas William Daniel

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£442k	£508k
31/12/2024	£277k	£308k
31/12/2023	£220k	£221k
31/12/2022	£305k	£224k
31/12/2021	£158k	£176k

Common questions

Is ST MATTHEW'S AND ST OSWALD'S CHURCH AS A CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £171,194, which the trustees consider sufficient to maintain reserves in excess of two months' overall expenditure and one month of salaries. The underlying trend for revenue income and expenditure is described as almost in balance, and the trustees confirm adequate resources for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	25/03/2021	£3k	Make Lunch Rugby
The National Lottery Community Fund	20/07/2018	£3k	Make Lunch Rugby

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE COUNTESS OF HUNTINGDON'S CONNEXION	1	£8k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, MIDDLETON.

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, MIDDLETON income £36k
ST MARY & ST GEORGE income £106k
ALTITUDE CHURCH income £75k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST OSWALD, TILE HILL, IN THE DIOCESE OF COVENTRY income £192k
ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST income £483k
TOLWORTH ST GEORGE'S CHURCH income £111k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ST MATTHEW'S AND ST OSWALD'S CHURCH AS A CHARITY	£442k	—	above	—	no doubt
ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, MIDDLETON FY2025	£36k	—	above	—	no doubt
ST MARY & ST GEORGE FY2025	£106k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ALTITUDE CHURCH FY2026	£75k	£39,053	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST OSWALD, TILE HILL, IN THE DIOCESE OF COVENTRY FY2025	£192k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST FY2025	£483k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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