THE LITTLEGATE TRUST

Registered charity 1167335 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Providing premises for churches and Christian activites

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) BY PROVIDING PREMISES FOR CHURCHES AND OTHER CHRISTIAN CHARITIES OR GROUPS THAT ARE IN SYMPATHY WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH TO MEET AND CARRY OUT ACTIVITIES.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,985,127, which is above the stated policy target of three months' expenditure. The charity reported a net deficit for the year of £118,587, driven by increased charitable expenditure and mortgage costs, despite generating £261,211 in incoming resources.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Price Bailey 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £4.1m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~22.0 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PAUL VERE LINDONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ALEXANDER MARCHAM
• Alistair Cory
• James Stevens
• Lindsay Chadwick · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robin David Cooper
• Simon David Pillar · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• LIMOGES CHARITABLE TRUST income £69k
• THE LIGHT CHURCH NETWORK income £75k
• NORTHGATE CHURCH TRUST income £270k
• LIFEHOUSE MINISTRIES income £45k
• LITTLE GIVING income £650k
• LITTLEOVER METHODIST CHURCH income £292k

Side by side with its peers

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