SHEFFIELD CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Registered charity 1159621 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (i.e. Church Services, groups, activities).2. The CIO provides secular activities to serve and enhance the local community (i.e. runs secular clubs and activities, partners with Gleadless Valley Foodbank, rents out rooms to individuals and organisations for a range of community activities).

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS PART OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE INC AND THE DISTRICT PRINCIPALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN NORTHERN ENGLAND

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 · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted cash funds held at 30 September 2025 were £39,811, which is higher than the charity's stated reserves policy target of £23,160. The charity reports a net movement in funds of £19,930 for the year, driven by significant property sales and ongoing operational income.

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.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds 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

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (75% 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 (24/02/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Beverley Ann Fitzjohn
• HELEN JANE ROBERTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL SALMONS
• Robert Wayne Fitzjohn
• SIMON CHEATLE
• Samuel Hollingworth
• VIVIEN JESSOP

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

Operates in: Sheffield City

Income and spending

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• SHEFFIELD METHODIST CIRCUIT income £2.1m
• EMMANUEL CHURCH CARDIFF income £151k

Side by side with its peers

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