WEST ORCHARD UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY

Registered charity 1130080 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing regular worship for all. Promoting and teaching the Christian faith. Serving the community. Giving pastoral care and support to members and others in need, particularly those in sickness, distress or poverty. Providing premises and resources for community groups and activities. Providing activities, training, nurture and support for children and young people.

Objects

The object of the Charity is the advancement of the Christian faith for the benefit of the public in accordance with the Scheme of Union of the United Reformed 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: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall deficit of £30,462 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant improvement from the £100,927 deficit in the previous year. Total reserves decreased to £713,486, with unrestricted reserves standing at £704,263, which the trustees note supports day-to-day running costs for three months. The charity is preparing for a merger into a new CIO, Baginton Road United Reformed Church, with assets to be transferred upon the completion of the sale of the Warwick Road sanctuary.

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.

• Complaints handling
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Crawford Dow
• June Walls
• MARGARET KERR COSTIGAN
• Marilyn Sanders
• Mary Goodwin
• PAMELA DAWSON
• PAULINE LUCKETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Jarrad
• Susan Davis

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

Operates in: Coventry City

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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