ONE CHURCH

Registered charity 1131467 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ONE CHURCH BRISTOL, ONE CHURCH KEYNSHAM, ONE CHURCH PODSMEAD, One Church Gloucester

To advance the Christian faith, to relieve sickness and financial hardship 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. Also to advance education.

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

Latest income
£1.1m
Latest spending
£1.1m
Registered
2009
Accounts read
FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £33,746 and total net assets of £1,336,780, comprising £928,446 in designated unrestricted funds and £237,850 in restricted funds. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy requiring contingency reserves between £150,000 and £200,000, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: not less £150,000 and no more than £200,000 (held: £171k)
“The current policy requires the charity to hold contingency reserves of not less £150,000 and no more than £200,000.”
Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by DSC Accountants Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income
£1.1m
Total spending
£1.1m
Reserves (reported)
£171k
Employees
17

Reported reserves equal ~1.9 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (79% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset · Bristol City · Gloucestershire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/12/2024£1.1m£1.1m
31/12/2023£903k£829k
31/12/2022£802k£789k
31/12/2021£646k£631k
31/12/2020£679k£553k

Common questions

Is ONE CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £33,746 and total net assets of £1,336,780, comprising £928,446 in designated unrestricted funds and £237,850 in restricted funds. Per the trustees' report, the charity maintains a reserves policy requiring contingency reserves between £150,000 and £200,000, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by DSC Accountants Limited.

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ONE CHURCH LEICESTER.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
ONE CHURCH£1.1m—0unclear—no doubt
ONE CHURCH LEICESTER FY2025£1.6m—0unclear—no doubt
THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP FY2025£226k—0unclear—no doubt
TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH FY2025£141k£30,6320unclear—no doubt
NEW GROUND CHURCHES FY2025£450kmore than £60,0002above—no doubt
THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST SALVATION ARK PARISH FY2025£242k—0unclear—no doubt

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