CITY PRAISE CENTRE CIO

Registered charity 1160677 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CPC

- CHRISTIAN BASED TEACHING - CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH CLUBS- WORSHIP SERVICES- SUPPORT FOR THE ELDERLY- SUPPORT FOR THE HOMELESS- SUPPORT OF LOCAL AND OVERSEAS CHRISTIAN MISSIONS- OTHER MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY IN NEED OF SUPPORT

Objects

1. TO PROCLAIM THE GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST AND TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH CITY PRAISE CENTRE (THE "CHURCH") FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:(A) PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING PLACES OF WORSHIP FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH AND THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY;(B) COMMUNICATING CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES AND LIFESTYLE AS TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE;(C) TRAINING CHRISTIANS FOR MINISTRY AND SERVICE WITHIN THE CHURCH AND WIDER WORLD; AND(D) PARTNERING WITH OTHER CHURCHES, FAITHS AND CHRISTIAN ORGANISATIONS TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHURCH AND ITS DOCTRINES.2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD BY PROVIDING OR ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF PRACTICAL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO THE POOR AND DISADVANTAGED.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted free reserves stood at £419,504, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of holding between £150,000 and £250,000. The charity reported a net income surplus of £167,100 for the year, with total income of £763,418 against expenditure of £596,318.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. 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.

• 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. 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 ~8.4 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 (95% 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 (18/10/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Olayinka Tomorichair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Olufemi Lakeru · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruth Lindsay · trustee of 1 other charity
• TESSY OJO · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bexley · Bromley · Kent · Medway

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 COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL.

• COMMAND PRAYER CENTRE MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £209k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £167k
• THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST SALVATION ARK PARISH income £242k
• GATES OF PRAISE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £218k
• PROGRAMME FOR APPLIED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION income £169k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LUKES REDCLIFFE GARDENS income £310k

Side by side with its peers

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