CHURCH LANE EVANGELICAL CHURCH, STAFFORD

Registered charity 1152176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CLEC

This church provides a place of worship and regular worship services in an open manner to welcome all in the community to exercise, explore and develop their faith in Jesus Christ. It provides weekly age-appropriate activities to support and benefit people in the community. A percentage of its income is used to support other Christian activity.

Objects

IN ACCORDANCE WITH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, AND AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT, TO ADVANCE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES. THESE OBJECTS MAY BE PURSUED ANYWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE TRUSTEES.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a surplus of £24,534 and total unrestricted reserves of £1,067,008.54. The trustees confirm the charity is able to meet its liabilities as they fall due and have prepared the accounts on a going concern basis.

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 5 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 policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Medwaychair
• ANDREW RICHARD COOK
• Shingirayi Kapfunde

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

Operates in: Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STANMORE CHAPEL.

• STANMORE CHAPEL income £154k
• SPEN VALLEY CHURCH income £90k
• FORDS LANE EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £152k
• WESTCLIFFE ROAD CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £39k
• LANGFORD EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £27k
• MAGDALEN ROAD EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH income £317k

Side by side with its peers

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