ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH SUTTON COLDFIELD

Registered charity 1161799 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARK COMMUNITY CHURCH

To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Evangelical Alliance statement of beliefs. This is done through the holding of meetings, worship and outreach activities in the local community and by supporting mission partners, prayerfully, practically and financially.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 8% to £202,772 while expenditure increased by 19% to £202,425, resulting in a negligible net surplus of £347. Unrestricted funds increased by £4,284, and the trustees confirm that budgeted income and expenditure are sufficient with current reserves to continue as a going concern.

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.

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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (20/03/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/11/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Charles Neil Spencer
• Christopher Woods · trustee of 1 other charity
• Daniel Waldron
• Julio Tolaini
• Laurence Chilver
• Stephanie Kate Jones
• Stephen William Eaves

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE C3 CHURCH.

• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALDINGBOURNE BARNHAM AND EASTERGATE income £163k
• CHILTERN CHURCH income £276k
• THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST SALVATION ARK PARISH income £242k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH DORE income £403k
• BANBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £245k

Side by side with its peers

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