THE ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1132161 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Ark conducts weekly church services, prayer meetings, training and youth work. The church supports Christian evangelistic and humanitarian initiatives amongst the homeless and disadvantaged in the UK and abroad. The Ark also runs a Foodbank supporting families referred to us by local schools, and gives grants to those suffering hardship.

Objects

THE CHURCH'S OBJECT, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Watford, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £16,447 for the year, with total income of £114,622 and expenditure of £98,175. Free/unrestricted reserves stood at £69,435, which exceeds the stated policy target of three months of primary expenditure. The accounts were subject to independent examination rather than audit.

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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06959400

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• GARDNER, Jonathan — director, appointed 03/02/2023on trustee list
• NIELSEN, Janet Kay — director, appointed 03/02/2023on trustee list
• SPARKS, Neal — director, appointed 03/02/2023on trustee list

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Janet Kay Nielsenchair
• CONNIE REYNOLDS
• Jonathan Edwin Gardner
• Nadya Dyett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neal Anthony Sparks
• Siobhan Clark

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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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 ARK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• ARK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £54k
• ARK MISSION CHURCH BRADFORD (REVIVAL CENTRE) income £67k
• Lapford Community Church income £55k
• THE ARK CHURCH (HUDDERSFIELD) income £115k
• THE ARK PRE-SCHOOL income £86k
• YORK COMMUNITY CHURCH income £349k

Side by side with its peers

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