THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BROADWATER WORTHING

Registered charity 1133987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BROADWATER PCC

Religious Activities

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net surplus of £28,241 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total unrestricted cash reserves held in the bank at £201,917. This balance represents five months of regular running costs, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet financial commitments in 2026 despite a forecast deficit. The charity remains wholly reliant on voluntary giving and is currently navigating an interregnum period without a Rector.

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.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2022)

Reported reserves equal ~5.5 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (49% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Edwin Paul Anthony Dineschair
• ANDREA GREEN
• ANDREW MARSHALL
• ANDREW PAUL RAYNER · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANTHONY ROBERT FORD
• Caroline Louise Stacey
• Elizabeth Mary Crockett · trustee of 2 other charities
• Geoffrey Kelvin Gair
• George Charles Woollard
• Joan Pamela Saunders
• John Kenneth Whitehead
• Lauren Jane Banks
• MRS LIZ FARROW
• Mary Veronica Stewart
• Matthew John Worsfold
• Patricia Jane Westran
• Richard Lloyd Hobbs
• Richard Stuart Gray
• TERRY SMITH
• THOMAS BOURNER
• Teresa Julia Anderson
• Timothy Lawrence Miller
• Tusa Clark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Victoria Ludlow

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

Operates in: West Sussex

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