RIVER OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE

Registered charity 1139988 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE WESTBURY FULL GOSPEL CHURCH (OLD NAME)

To be a strong and lively Church where the gifts, talents and abilities of each person can be discovered and fulfilled, able and willing to reach out and meet the needs of the community, with the intention of bringing them to a commitment to Jesus Christ and then leading them on into a productive Christian life.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN BRISTOL AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES INCLUDING THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE PROVISION OF COMMUNITY FACILITIES WHICH ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY.

Area of benefit: BRISTOL

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a surplus for the year, with unrestricted income exceeding expenditure by £20,033. Free reserves increased to £140,488, while total unrestricted funds stood at £304,007. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties affecting the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/11/2011) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Iain Peter Williamschair
• ANDREW CHRISTAKI
• DARREN TORRINGTON

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

Common questions

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH (WORTHING).

• RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH (WORTHING) income £67k
• RIVER OF LIFE CITY CHURCH income £96k
• RIVER CHRISTIAN CENTRE LIMITED income £96k
• RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH, FELIXSTOWE income £96k
• LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £30k
• RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH income £28k

Side by side with its peers

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