THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARD SHOREDITCH

Registered charity 1139673 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SHOREDITCH CHURCH

Parish Church of St Leonard Shoreditch in the London Borough of Hackney

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Latest income

£313k

Latest spending

£371k

Registered

2011

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £312,528 from £379,523 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased slightly to £370,737, resulting in a net deficit of £58,192. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased by £58,191 to £2,246,980, and the charity maintains a policy of not deliberately building up reserves. The charity confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: not deliberately build up reserves (held: £2.2m)

“PCC policy is to not deliberately build up reserves. Any reserves that may exist, result from accumulated giving at any one time.” — page 7

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: 11. Related Party Transactions

“The incumbent of St.Leonard's is also the incumbent of the Parish of Hackney. During the year the Parish of Hackney collected donations as agent for St. Leonard's in the amount of £125,899 (2023: £88,625). During the year the PCC was charged £124,479 (2023: £108,773) by the Parish of Hackney for lay ministry and administrative support that was wholly related to the benefit of St. Leonard's church activities.” — page 17

“The PCC offers some accommodation at the PCC’s investment property in Hoxton Square below commercial rent to employees of the Parish of Hackney and church volunteers.” — page 17

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: 11. Related Party Transactions

“The incumbent of St.Leonard's is also the incumbent of the Parish of Hackney. During the year the Parish of Hackney collected donations as agent for St. Leonard's in the amount of £125,899 (2023: £88,625). During the year the PCC was charged £124,479 (2023: £108,773) by the Parish of Hackney for lay ministry and administrative support that was wholly related to the benefit of St. Leonard's church activities.” — page 17

“The PCC offers some accommodation at the PCC’s investment property in Hoxton Square below commercial rent to employees of the Parish of Hackney and church volunteers.” — page 17

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: 11. Related Party Transactions

“The incumbent of St.Leonard's is also the incumbent of the Parish of Hackney. During the year the Parish of Hackney collected donations as agent for St. Leonard's in the amount of £125,899 (2023: £88,625). During the year the PCC was charged £124,479 (2023: £108,773) by the Parish of Hackney for lay ministry and administrative support that was wholly related to the benefit of St. Leonard's church activities.” — page 17

“The PCC offers some accommodation at the PCC’s investment property in Hoxton Square below commercial rent to employees of the Parish of Hackney and church volunteers.” — page 17

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

Trustees · trustee networks

Aimen Burhan
Callum Frost
Cat Bramley
Colleen Gilkes
DEBORAH MARY PRITCHARD
David Lochhead
Deon Vermaak
Kevin Sing Yue Kong
PHILIP MICHAEL WHITEHEAD MA MSC
Rev Alexander Gordon · trustee of 4 other charities
Rev Naomi Maxwell-Babatunde · trustee of 2 other charities
Will Johnson
Yvonne Tapper · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Hackney · Islington · Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£313k	£371k
31/12/2023	£380k	£368k
31/12/2022	£288k	£350k
31/12/2021	£268k	£332k
31/12/2020	£200k	£181k

Common questions

Is THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARD SHOREDITCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £312,528 from £379,523 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased slightly to £370,737, resulting in a net deficit of £58,192. Per the trustees' report, free reserves decreased by £58,191 to £2,246,980, and the charity maintains a policy of not deliberately building up reserves. The charity confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were independently examined.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
UK government	24/11/2020	£6k	North wall of the churchyard of St Leonard's Church
UK government	24/11/2020	£17k	North wall of the churchyard of St Leonard's Church
UK government	09/11/2020	£5k	St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch
UK government	09/11/2020	£15k	St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	17/08/2020	£16k	"COVID19 St Leonard's church, Shoreditch"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/11/2017	£238k	"St Leonard's Shoreditch: urgent repairs to portico and west front"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	11/10/2017	£10k	"Looking for Shoreditch's vanished mediaeval church"

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
The Leathersellers' Foundation	1	£40k
FISHMONGERS' COMPANY'S CHARITABLE TRUST	1	£15k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE UNITED CHARITIES OF ST LEONARD, SHOREDITCH.

THE UNITED CHARITIES OF ST LEONARD, SHOREDITCH income £154k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MATTHEW, ST. LEONARDS ON SEA income £172k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. LEONARD'S, CHESHAM BOIS income £227k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARD WITH HOLY TRINITY, EXETER income £468k
THE SHOREDITCH TRUST income £1.7m
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARDS ON SEA, ST LEONARD AND ST ETHELBURGA income £117k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARD SHOREDITCH	£313k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE UNITED CHARITIES OF ST LEONARD, SHOREDITCH FY2024	£154k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. MATTHEW, ST. LEONARDS ON SEA FY2025	£172k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. LEONARD'S, CHESHAM BOIS FY2025	£227k	—	0	below	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LEONARD WITH HOLY TRINITY, EXETER FY2024	£468k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE SHOREDITCH TRUST FY2025	£1.7m	£70,001 - £80,000	1	unclear	—	no doubt

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