TOWY COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1136394 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church in the community.Construction and management of Xcel project

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £203,858 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £999,814 to £795,956. The trustees' report notes that 2024 was a difficult year financially due to economic pressures, but the charity secured refinancing with Kingdom Bank in December to repay outstanding loans. The independent auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Ashmole & Co. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Paul Griffiths — Pastor (source)
• Niall Pickup — Elder (source)
• Adam Coates — Elder (source)
• Hazel Bates — Elder (source)
• Charlie Evans — Elder (source)
• Rob Jones — Elder (source)
• Joshua Bennett — Elder (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (74% 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 (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/10/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Niall Pickupchair
• Charlie Evans
• Emyr Jones
• Paul Griffiths
• Tim Howells

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

Operates in: Carmarthenshire

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD LIVING BREAD NEWCASTLE.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD LIVING BREAD NEWCASTLE income £209k
• CHRIST CHURCH COMMUNITY TRUST income £356k
• RENEWAL CHURCH income £1.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, CAMBERLEY income £564k
• BANBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £245k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY WITH SAINT MARY income £513k

Side by side with its peers

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