ABUNDANT LIFE FOR ALL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY

Registered charity 1149610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ALFA CC

Provision of care and services for adults with Learning Disabilities. Current services are a Training Lunch Club, where trainees with LD learn catering skills, Woodwork and Gardening Day Services for adults with LD. Emphasis on giving trainees an opportunity to do something constructive and positive for others. Aspiration to provide supported community style living for adults with LD.

Objects

THE CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY ARE:1. TO RELIEVE THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY (ESPECIALLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THOSE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES), FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER DISADVANTAGE; AND2. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £3,678 for the year, largely due to the repayment of a £13,833.66 overpayment from Bristol City Council. Despite this deficit, the trustees note that unrestricted funds remain at £36,093 and describe the financial model as stable and appropriate.

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 3 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08277571

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• NEWNS, Geoffrey — director, appointed 29/04/2017on trustee list
• SMITH, Jane Catherine — director, appointed 01/07/2014on trustee list
• PALMER, Catherine Jane — director, appointed 01/11/2012on trustee list
• MORTON, Carolyn Elizabeth, Dr — secretary, appointed 01/11/2012

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CATHERINE JANE PALMER
• Geoffrey Newns
• Jane Smith · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Gloucestershire · North Somerset · South Gloucestershire · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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