EMMAUS ROAD COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1152606 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EMMAUS RD

Emmaus Road Community Church operates in Guildford, Woking and Aldershot in the South-East of England. An extensive range of youth and children's work, practical support for those in need, pastoral care, marriage preparation and support, debt counselling, evangelism, prayers for society and regular public acts of worship.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is in a healthy state financially, with total unrestricted free reserves of £732,877 against a policy target of three months' average expenditure. The trustees report strong income and confidence in financial stability, while the auditor confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding the entity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 0 (FY2025).

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sammy Greig — Senior Pastor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Emmaus Rd Transformation Trust — “The Lighthouses are community centres in Aldershot, Guildford and Woking supported by the Emmaus Rd Transformation Trust.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £850k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 1.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Pete Wilsonchair
• Maria Allen
• Mervyn Lloyd Samuel Thomas
• Peter Gerald Royston Lawson
• Rachel Zani

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

Operates in: Surrey

Income and spending

Common questions

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 EMMAUS SOUTH LAMBETH COMMUNITY.

• EMMAUS SOUTH LAMBETH COMMUNITY income £1.8m
• EMMAUS HASTINGS AND ROTHER income £491k
• EMMAUS U.K. income £3.1m
• SUSSEX EMMAUS income £2.0m
• EMMAUS GREENWICH income £1.2m
• EMMAUS CAMBRIDGE income £2.0m

Side by side with its peers

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