CITY CHURCH PRESTON

Registered charity 1153061 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

City Church Preston is a community of faith, hope and love that seeks to communicate the life changing message of Jesus to Preston and beyond. The church seeks to serve the wider community by being involved in a wide range of activities to bring positive change to our city.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £212,266, which significantly exceeds its stated reserves policy target of approximately six months of salary bills. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue operating, and the net assets have increased slightly from the previous year.

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 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £7,277 (FY2024) to £7,568 (FY2025).

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08522873

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — City Church Preston (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BALSHAW, Paul Henry — director, appointed 02/01/2024on trustee list
• COUPE, Anna-Maria — director, appointed 08/12/2023on trustee list
• EVENSON-APPLEYARD, Teodora Abachin — director, appointed 01/08/2022on trustee list
• THIRUKUMARAN, Soundrarajah Richard — director, appointed 17/11/2016on trustee list
• MALTBY, Philip John — director, appointed 09/05/2013on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £151k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev PHILIP JOHN MALTBYchair
• Anna-Maria Coupe
• MR Soundrarajah Richard THIRUKUMARAN
• Paul Balshaw
• Teodora Abachin Evenson-Appleyard

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

Operates in: Lancashire

Income and spending

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