GATEWAY CHRISTIAN CENTRE

Registered charity 1136007 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Gateway Christian Centre operates as a local Christian church in West Bromwich providing services such as:Public worship services, Communion, Baptisms, Weddings, Funerals, Pastoral Care, Marriage guidance, Family support, Food support for needy families both within the congregation and in the wider community, Children's ministry, Youth work, Young leader mentorship, Moms and Toddlers group etc.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECT IS TO ADVANCE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THEPUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF 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.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income surplus of £76,712 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £745,078 and total expenditure of £668,366. Per the trustees' report, cash reserves held for future expenditure amounted to £293,145, which includes restricted funds of £112,836. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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 (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David L'Herroux
• Dr Olutanbosun Lawal
• John Quintanilla · trustee of 1 other charity
• Neil Easton
• Stuart Freeman

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• GATEWAY BAPTIST CHURCH income £145k
• GATEWAY (YORK) CIO income £419k
• GATEWAY CHURCH income £411k
• THE GATE CHURCH income £116k
• CITYGATE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTRE income £3.4m
• THE GATEWAY CHURCH - NEWCASTLE income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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