ST GREGORIOS INDIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

Registered charity 1156444 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church provides a place for people to worship.It focus on the development of faith through sharing of scripture,prayer and testimony.It organises holy mass on Sunday,prayer meetings and sunday school services for children.During Christmas,it arranges Christmas carol service and cultural programmes.It also arranges talent competitions and vacation bible classes for children during summer holidays.

Objects

THE FOLLOWING SHALL BE THE OBJECTS OF THE PARISH:TO ADVANCE THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT ESSEX AND SURROUNDING AREAS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS AND PUBLIC WORSHIP, LECTURES, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS, PRODUCING AND/OR DISTRIBUTING LITERATURE ON THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FAITH TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN FAITH AND TEACHING THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE FAITH.

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

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Registered contact address: Southend-on-Sea, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £181,209, a significant increase from the previous year's £99,093. The accounts state that the charity is not dependent on any specific future funding to continue its activities, and the independent examiner reported no material matters requiring attention. The charity has no restricted funds and holds no tangible fixed assets, maintaining its net assets primarily as cash at bank.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 10/04/2022, 69 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anumol Jose
• Basil Peter
• JEENA KURIAKOSE
• Jacob Panamthottil Thomas
• K S Abraham
• LIBINI MUKALUVILAYIL MATHEWS
• RINU RAJU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Roy Abraham Philipose
• SIJO M JACOB
• Sunimol Thomas
• Suresh Sundaram

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

Common questions

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