THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOKE GIFFORD

Registered charity 1134709 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church of England -- serving the community Spiritually and practically

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.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Gloucestershire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £161,732 for the year, driven largely by donations and funds received in advance for a church refurbishment project. Free reserves stood at £116,403, which is below the trustees' stated policy target of £250,000, a shortfall the trustees attribute to the use of reserves to fund the ongoing capital project. The accounts state that the charity has sufficient cash reserves to continue as a going concern for at least 18 months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Western Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or 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.

• 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
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Revd Canon Simon Jones — Rector (source)
• Andy Mead — Director of Operations (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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.7 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (50% 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

• Rev SIMON JONESchair
• Andrew John Domaille Fenton
• Andy Mead
• CHRISTOPHER BRADLEY
• Chi Hung 'Alfred' Tang
• Ching Yee 'Rebecca' Wong
• Christopher William Reveley · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Robert Pilch · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Wyndham Ottaway
• Dr Julie Ann Hobbs
• Elizabeth Jane Grant
• Emma Jane Bone
• Helen Culshaw
• Jacqueline Karen Day
• John Spens · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Mark Warren
• KAREN NEEDHAM
• Laura Thomas
• Paul David Davies
• Rev Tom Benyon
• Tak Ching 'Thomas' Tai

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

Operates in: South Gloucestershire

Income and spending

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