CITY OF GOD CHRISTIAN CENTRE

Registered charity 1131100 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

In expansion of our religion service, the charity opened a new centre in Sunderland, Uk. Also made grant donations to other charity such as the Ameobi hardship funds for international students. As part of our advancement of education, the charity made an education enlightment trip to the city of Blackpool for his members. Small donations were also made to individauls who were under extreme poverty

Objects

A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION B) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION C) THE RELIEF OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP D)THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity closed the year with a profit of £68,590, having generated total incoming resources of £358,835 against total expenditure of £290,245. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds total net assets of £142,364, comprising unrestricted funds of £105,478 and restricted funds of £36,886. The trustees confirmed there was no significant impact from the pandemic on the financial statements.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (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.

• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Walker and District Foodbank (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £120k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~0.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (92% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 51.1% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Ijeoma Ogah
• MR MICHEAL MCENANEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• PASTOR BRIGHT ONOKA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victor Onwudili

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

Operates in: Ghana · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Nigeria · Sunderland

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

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

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, CITY OF VICTORY.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, CITY OF VICTORY income £141k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, CITY OF TRUTH income £148k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - SAINTS IN LIGHT ASSEMBLY SUNDERLAND income £146k
• THE CHRISTIAN CENTRE (HUMBERSIDE) LIMITED income £469k
• CITY VALLEY CHURCH income £160k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD LIVING FAITH SUNDERLAND income £107k

Side by side with its peers

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