Thanet Community Churches

Registered charity 1163414 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COMMUNITY CHURCH RAMSGATE

The church seeks to be a community that 'loves God, loves each other and loves Thanet'. To share the good news of Jesus and compassionately care for 'the least, the last and the lost' in our district. Relieving poverty and hardship, creating community, educating and sharing wisdom.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATEMENT OF FAITH ATTACHED HERETOTO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN RELATION TO THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGIONTO RELIEVE POVERTY AND HARDSHIP

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Thanet, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that net unrestricted current assets held at year-end were £125,269, which complies with the trustees' reserves policy target of no less than £50,000. The charity reported a surplus for the year of £54,595, resulting in total net assets increasing to £244,147. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future.

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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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 31/08/2025 (received 16/07/2026, 16 days after the 30/06/2026 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Brian Graham Lambertonchair
• David John Parkinson
• Karon Wheeler
• Sarah Gillian Wallis

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

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

• KENILWORTH COMMUNITY CHURCH income £91k
• TOTNES UNITED FREE CHURCH income £104k
• NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £71k
• THE NETWORK CHURCH income £115k
• BENFLEET METHODIST CHURCH income £351k
• COMMUNITY BARNET income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.