AVENUE ST ANDREW'S SOUTHAMPTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY

Registered charity 1130504 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AVENUE ST ANDREW'S URC CHARITY

Providing regular worship for all. Promoting the Christian Faith. Teaching the faith to all ages. Providing training, nurture and activities for children and young people. 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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a combined deficit on general funds of £14,001 for the year, primarily due to high energy costs and building repairs, despite a surplus on hall funds. Unrestricted church funds carried forward were £144,219, which the trustees note equates to only two months of running costs against a policy target of six months. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Avenue St Andrew's United Reformed Church (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/02/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Azalia Ruth Gosling
• Joan Elizabeth Macdonald McGavin
• MARGARET DOROTHY HELLER
• Pamela Marjorie Humphreys
• Susan Valerie Wallingford · trustee of 3 other charities
• Susanne Janet Dawson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Southampton City

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PLUME AVENUE, COLCHESTER, UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY.

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Side by side with its peers

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