ALDERSGATE AND MOORGATE TALKS TRUST

Registered charity 1165995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancement of the Christian faith including faithful teaching of the scriptures in the areas around Moorgate, Barbican, St. Paul's and Holborn in London. Recruitment, education, training and sending of gospel ministers and others into these areas and elsewhere. Support of Christians who are engaged in missionary work of proclaiming the gospel and in bringing others to believe in Jesus Christ.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £3,427 for the year ended 31 October 2025, with total income of £200,059 and total resources expended of £196,632. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £393,975, which significantly exceed its stated policy target of £25,000. The charity has no employees and relies on voluntary income and rental income to fund grants and property maintenance.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 09265561

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BROWN, Brian Alfred — director, appointed 05/07/2022on trustee list
• GITTINS, Hugh John — director, appointed 15/10/2014on trustee list
• LINFORTH, Edward James — director, appointed 15/10/2014on trustee list
• MACLENNAN, Ian Charles — director, appointed 15/10/2014on trustee list
• GITTINS, Hugh — secretary, appointed 15/10/2014

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £870k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Charles Maclennanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Brian Alfred Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Edward James Linforth · trustee of 2 other charities
• Hugh John Gittins

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY GATE FOUNDATION.

• CITY GATE FOUNDATION income £115k
• Islington Gospel Trust Limited income £240k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GILES' CRIPPLEGATE, WITH ST. BARTHOLOMEW, MOOR LANE, AND ST. ALPHAGE, LONDON WALL AND income £421k
• THE LONDON FULL GOSPEL CENTRAL CHURCH income £974k
• THE HOLY TRINITY GATESHEAD CHURCH TRUST income £289k
• THORNFIELD GOSPEL HALL TRUST income £131k

Side by side with its peers

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