Way Church

Registered charity 1133425 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TODAY'S COMMUNITY CHURCH, TODAY'S COMMUNITY CHURCH LIFE

The principal activity of the charitable company in the year under review was that of allowing the space created within the church to be occupied and enjoyed for the purpose of preaching and teaching the Gospel, in addition to being used for the benefit of the borough. The aim for 2022 is to continue in this vein and to extend the charitable activities of the church.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES SET OUT IN THE ATTACHED SCHEDULE AND THE WORSHIP OF GOD IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER INCLUDING (BUT NOT BY WAY OF LIMITATION) THE PREACHING AND PROCLAMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL AND THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES AND THE PASTORAL CARE OF CHRISTIAN PEOPLE AND THE PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE INCLUDING VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDINGS OR ELECTRONICALLY AND BY ANY OTHER MEDIA WHICH IS OR MAY BECOME AVAILABLE.

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: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wigan, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£1.8m

Latest spending

£1.6m

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £110,379 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £3,784,459. However, the charity held net current liabilities of £93,185, which is below the stated target of maintaining a minimum of £150,000 in operating capital to cover employee costs. The trustees and auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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: minimum of £150,000 to cover approximately 3 months employee costs and to act as operating capital (reserves figure: £3.8m)

“the charity aims to keep this at a minimum of £150,000 to cover approximately 3 months employee costs and to act as operating capital.” — page 5

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: Salaries paid to trustees Annette Burton, Ben Tarbuck, and Graham Hogg for services as Finance Lead, Senior Leader, and General Manager respectively.

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Annette Burton in respect of services as Finance Lead. Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Ben Tarbuck in respect of services as Senior Leader of the Church. Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Graham Hogg in respect of services as General Manager.” — page 22

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Salary paid to trustee Annette Burton for services as Finance Lead.

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Annette Burton in respect of services as Finance Lead.” — page 22

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Ben Tarbuck in respect of services as Senior Leader of the Church.” — page 22

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Salary paid to trustee Ben Tarbuck for services as Senior Leader of the Church.

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Annette Burton in respect of services as Finance Lead.” — page 22

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Ben Tarbuck in respect of services as Senior Leader of the Church.” — page 22

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Salary paid to trustee Graham Hogg for services as General Manager.

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Annette Burton in respect of services as Finance Lead.” — page 22

“Salary shown as trustees remuneration includes an amount paid to Ben Tarbuck in respect of services as Senior Leader of the Church.” — page 22

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd. 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
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Paying staff
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
Volunteer management

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 210
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 206
Government income: £4,554 — grants £4,554 (3); under 1% of the £1,656,422 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 150
Government income: £1,000 — grants £1,000 (1); under 1% of the £1,296,617 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2025 (received 02/11/2026, 2 days after the 31/10/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

Registered company of the charity Companies House 06993403 · Financial health read from its filings

The charity’s company — latest Companies House iXBRL filing (balance sheet 31 December 2025)

Average employees: 0.71

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Ben Tarbuck — Leader of Way (source)

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.

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.

MACLEOD, Ryan — director, appointed 24/10/2025not on trustee list
SICILIA OLIVEROS, Joy Helen — director, appointed 18/04/2025not on trustee list
ATHERTON, Cathy — director, appointed 23/01/2023on trustee list
TARBUCK, Benjamin Robert — director, appointed 18/05/2022on trustee list
HOGG, Graham — director, appointed 17/05/2022on trustee list
BURTON, Annette Linda — director, appointed 01/12/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Total income

£1.8m

Total spending

£1.6m

Reserves (reported)

£0

Employees

71

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (61% 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Joy Helen Sicilia Oliveroschair
Annette Linda Burton
Benjamin Robert Tarbuck
Cathy Atherton
Graham Hogg
Ryan Macleod

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

Operates in: Wigan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.8m	£1.6m
31/12/2024	£1.7m	£1.5m
31/12/2023	£1.3m	£1.2m
31/12/2022	£1.1m	£1.1m
31/12/2021	£859k	£694k

Common questions

Is Way Church financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £110,379 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £3,784,459. However, the charity held net current liabilities of £93,185, which is below the stated target of maintaining a minimum of £150,000 in operating capital to cover employee costs. The trustees and auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Fairhurst Audit Services Ltd.

Who funds Way Church?

Funders whose own accounts filings name Way Church as a grant recipient include THE MESSAGE TRUST.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE MESSAGE TRUST	FY2024	£500	Community Grocery

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE ARCHBISHOPS' COUNCIL	1	£999k
GATEWAY CHURCH SWINDON	1	£3k
HOPE CHURCH HARROGATE	1	£3k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE WAY INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED.

THE WAY INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED income £82k
WAY UK income £210k
CHURCH ON THE WAY income £126k
NEW WAY CHRISTIAN LIFE FELLOWSHIP UK income £184k
THE KING'S WAY CHURCH CENTRE income £282k
GATEWAY CHURCH income £411k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
Way Church	£1.8m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE WAY INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED FY2025	£82k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
WAY UK FY2025	£210k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
CHURCH ON THE WAY FY2025	£126k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
NEW WAY CHRISTIAN LIFE FELLOWSHIP UK FY2025	£184k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE KING'S WAY CHURCH CENTRE FY2025	£282k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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