CHURCHES CONSERVATION

Registered charity 1150968 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Conservation of churches and chapels of historic and archaeological importance for benefit of members of the communities in which they are located and for the benefit of the wider public..The relief of people who are in need due to age ,ill health ,disability, social disadvantage.To Benefit the residents of the communities in which such churches are located by adapting and improving premises.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY ARE:4.1 THE CONSERVATION OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS OF HISTORIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OR ARCHITECTURAL QUALITY LOCATED ANYWHERE IN ENGLAND FOR THE BENEFIT OF MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH THEY ARE LOCATED AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WIDER PUBLIC; AND4.2 TO BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH SUCH CHURCHES AND CHAPELS ARE LOCATED (WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS) BY ADAPTING AND IMPROVING PREMISES SO THAT THEY CAN BE USED FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RESIDENTS AND FOR VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS FOR:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION,(B) THE RELIEF OF PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED BY REASON OF YOUTH, AGE, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR OTHER ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE,(C) THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKILLS AND CAPACITY OF RESIDENTS OF THOSE COMMUNITIES SO THAT THEY ARE BETTER ABLE TO IDENTIFY THEIR NEEDS, FIND WAYS OF MEETING THEM AND THUS TO PARTICIPATE MORE FULLY IN SOCIETY; AND(D) RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE, WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR RESIDENTS.

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

Causes: Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: West Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £1,631,697 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £7.32 million to £5.79 million. Despite this deficit, the trustees consider the unrestricted reserves of £169,357 to be adequate to cover six months of operational expenditure. The charity maintains a healthy balance sheet with sufficient unrestricted reserves to maintain operations and restricted funds to support specific projects.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Forvis Mazars LLP. 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 12/02/2025, 12 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 29/02/2024, 29 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~1.1 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alice Ullathorne
• Colin Shearer
• Humphrey Welfare
• Stephen Chater

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCH SOCIETY.

• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k
• THE HISTORIC CHAPELS TRUST income £2.2m
• SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES income £176k
• RESTORED TO RESTORE income £102k
• CULCHETH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £59k
• LEICESTER AND LEICESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES PRESERVATION TRUST income £42k

Side by side with its peers

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