TREE OF LIFE CHURCH

Registered charity 1136703 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Tree of Life Church is fulfilling its mission statement of inspiring people to dream, challenging them to live the dream. We are responsible for ensuring that our congregations in Dagenham, Guildford, Watford, Croydon and Brentwood are cared for on a pastoral, social and holistic manner, and ensuring that we are caring for the wider community in a pastoral and evangelistic manner.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN LONDON AND ESSEX FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, LECTURES, PRODUCING AND/ OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON CHRISTIANITY TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Area of benefit: LONDON AND ESSEX

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Islington, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £38,400 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £81,301 to £43,424. The trustees note that charitable activities are entirely dependent on continuing voluntary donations and trading revenues, with the going concern basis dependent on the future flow of these uncertain funding streams. Despite this dependency, the trustees are satisfied that it is appropriate to adopt the going concern basis after reviewing forecasts to March 2026.

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
• 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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (100% 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).

Trustees · trustee networks

• PASTOR BEN CONWAY BA (HONS), PGCEchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Aileen Leslie · trustee of 1 other charity
• CHRIS FADERO

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Hertfordshire · Suffolk · Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TREE OF LIFE CENTRE WYTHENSHAWE.

• THE TREE OF LIFE CENTRE WYTHENSHAWE income £561k
• Tree of Life Ministries. income £37k
• TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES UK income £66k
• CHAPEL OF LIFE income £285k
• TREE OF HOPE income £1.1m
• The Tree of Life Centre Colne Valley income £147k

Side by side with its peers

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