KING'S CHURCH MEDWAY

Registered charity 1152477 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CARING HANDS IN THE COMMUNITY

The advancement of the Christian faith principally in the Medway towns area and other charitable purposes that the Trustees from time to time determine

Objects

THE COMPANY'S OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND FOR SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE PRINCIPALLY IN THE MEDWAY AREA OF KENT.

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £72,660 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds carried forward of £1,459,098. The trustees confirm that the charity has sufficient resources to continue operating 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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

5 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~25.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (85% 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).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian David Vickerychair
• Bolarinwa Ogungbangbe
• James Nii Laryea Sowah · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Christopher Gill
• Rev MARTIN BROGAN
• Tafumanei Chapinduka

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE KING'S WAY CHURCH CENTRE.

• THE KING'S WAY CHURCH CENTRE income £282k
• KING'S CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £381k
• KING AND COUNTRY CHURCH income £143k
• KING'S CHURCH BASINGSTOKE income £79k
• THE KING'S CHURCH DURHAM income £571k
• KING'S CHURCH IVER income £70k

Side by side with its peers

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