NEW LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES (SLEAFORD)

Registered charity 1153603 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NLCM, NEW LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES

To advance the Christian Faith. To relieve sickness and financial hardship and to promote good health by the provision of funds, goods or services of any kind including through the provision of counselling and support in the UK or the world. To advance education in various ways in the UK or the world.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ("THE OBJECTS"):(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;(B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND(C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

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 · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: North Kesteven, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £69,505 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. However, it holds unrestricted free reserves of £476,037, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of six months' operational costs (£113,887). The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, and the examiner reported no matters requiring attention.

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.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education). This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: NEW LIFE CONFERENCE CENTRE LIMITED Companies House 05996683 · Financial health read from its filings
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08555537

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.

• TONGE, John — director, appointed 15/09/2025on trustee list
• STAPLES, Paul Michael — director, appointed 17/06/2024on trustee list
• COLYN, Debbie Heather — director, appointed 25/07/2019on trustee list
• JEAL, David Clifford — director, appointed 06/03/2017not on trustee list
• WATSON, Mark David — director, appointed 01/07/2016on trustee list
• MUNRO, Roderick John — director, appointed 04/06/2013on trustee list
• MALTBY, Keith David — director, appointed 04/06/2013on trustee list
• MALTBY, Keith David — secretary, appointed 04/06/2013

Official officers record.

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 £205k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (56% 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 (29/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Mark David Watsonchair
• DAVID CLIFFORD JEAL BA CERT ED · trustee of 1 other charity
• Debbie Heather Colyn
• John Tonge
• KEITH DAVID MALTBY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Michael Staples
• RODERICK JOHN MUNRO

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Guatemala · Kenya · Lincolnshire · Nottinghamshire · Pakistan · Portugal

Income and spending

Common questions

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 NEW LIFE CHURCH WORTHING.

• NEW LIFE CHURCH WORTHING income £186k
• New Life Church Northampton LTD income £478k
• CHEADLE NEW LIFE CHURCH income £30k
• NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE INTERNATIONAL income £248k
• NEW LIFE CHURCH WINCHESTER income £192k
• NEW LIFE CHURCH (REDCAR) income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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