COMMISSION APOSTOLIC TRUST LTD

Registered charity 1150017 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMISSION

Establishing new churches, providing assistance/support to existing churches. Public conferences inc. annual family Bible conference approx. 3000 delegates & conferences in Portugal/Spain & India for support, development & training of church leaders/members. Training church leaders through formal training courses. Church based community projects, inc. relief & development in low income countries.

Objects

1.TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TO PROCLAIM AND FURTHER THE GOSPEL OF GOD AND HIS SON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND TO PREACH AND TEACH THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD;AND 2.TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE FOR AGED PERSONS AND PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED,HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS WHETHER IN CONNECTION WITH HOUSING OR ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE(WHETHER BY WAY OF LOAN,GIFT,THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR IN ANY OTHER WAY)PRIORITY BEING GIVEN TO APPLICANTS WHO ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH THE OBJECT OF THE COMPANY SET OUT IN 1 ABOVE,OR SUCH OTHER RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION OR BODY HAVING PURPOSES SIMILAR THERETO AS THE MEMBERS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total free reserves held at year-end were £108,915, which the trustees confirm meets their stated policy target of between £100,000 and £200,000. The charity reported a net deficit of £29,410 for the year, with total incoming resources of £544,699 against total expenditure of £647,961. The independent examiner noted a concern regarding opening balance discrepancies but confirmed no other material issues with the financial statements.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.0 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 (88% 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

• Charlotte Walker
• John Flewitt
• Lisa Green
• MILES BARTHOLOMEW JARVIS
• Mark Truesdale · trustee of 1 other charity
• Oluwapelumi Ayomide Bolorunduro
• Thomas Hancock
• Tony Lynch

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Bhutan · Brazil · Canada · Croatia · Ghana · India · Jordan · Kenya · Lebanon · Mexico · Nepal

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Mark Truesdale — trustee here and at CITYGATE CHURCH

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CO-MISSION CHURCHES TRUST.

• THE CO-MISSION CHURCHES TRUST income £5.0m
• COUNSELLING PASTORAL TRUST income £56k
• THE PRESENCE CHARITABLE TRUST income £191k
• ANOINTED APOSTOLIC CHURCH income £43k
• THE PARTNERSHIP TRUST income £206k
• AIGBURTH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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