SANDWELL CHURCHES LINK

Registered charity 1167003 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCL

SCL equips churches to connect with their local communities and take action to reduce homelessness, food poverty, financial exclusion and social isolation by:facilitating an anti-poverty movement;developing creative responses to poverty;enabling strong partnerships;encouraging people of faith to listen to their communities and respond as part of their Christian discipleship.

Objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (THE “OBJECTS”) ARE THE PROMOTION OF THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR WITHIN SANDWELL AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS (THE AREA OF BENEFIT) IN PARTICULAR BY BUILDING THE CAPACITY OF ORGANISATIONS WHICH WORK WITHIN A CHRISTIAN ETHOS TO PREVENT AND RELIEVE POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION, ADVICE, SUPPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION.FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE, “THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR” MEANS CHARITIES AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DEFINED AS FOLLOWS: “CHARITIES” ARE ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.“VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS” ARE INDEPENDENT ORGANISATIONS, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED FOR PURPOSES THAT ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, OR A SIGNIFICANT SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WHICH ARE NOT PERMITTED BY THEIR CONSTITUTION TO MAKE A PROFIT FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION. VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DO NOT INCLUDE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR OTHER STATUTORY AUTHORITIES.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £120,585 from £128,330 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £90,795 from £74,972. Despite this, overall funds rose to £101,071, with unrestricted reserves standing at £41,031. The charity holds designated funds of £20,000 specifically allocated for future project planning.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Mary Farleychair
• Bev Thomas · trustee of 2 other charities
• HAZEL MARGARET BLOXHAM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev JON PHILIP GRANT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Oniyide Oludayomi
• Trevor Palfreyman

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

Operates in: Sandwell

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

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• Rev JON PHILIP GRANT — trustee here and at SANDWELL COUNCIL OF VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS (S.C.V.O.)

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD LIVING FAITH SUNDERLAND.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD LIVING FAITH SUNDERLAND income £107k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD ROYAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE WALSALL income £144k
• WALSALL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £348k
• SOLIHULL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £277k
• CHRISTCHURCH (METHODIST / CHURCH OF ENGLAND ECUMENICAL PARTNERSHIP) CLEVEDON income £206k
• Church Homeless Charity income £421k

Side by side with its peers

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