THE FELLOWSHIP OF INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL CHURCHES

Registered charity 1168037 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q5442536 · Wikipedia · also known as FIEC

SUPPORT, ADVICE, AND RESOURCES TO AFFILIATED INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL CHURCHES.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH WHICH SHALL MEAN THE FAITH BASED UPON THE DOCTRINAL BASIS OF THE CIO AND AND IN PARTICULAR, TO:5.1.1 PROMOTE THE UNITY AND WELFARE OF CHURCHES OF CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS WHICH ARE UNDENOMINATIONAL IN CONSTITUTION OR WHICH HAVE COME TO OCCUPY A POSITION OF DETACHMENT FROM THE DENOMINATIONAL BODIES WITH WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED BUT WITHOUT NECESSARILY ALTERING THEIR CONSTITUTIONS, ALL SUCH CHURCHES FINDING THEIR UNITY ON THE BASIS OF THE COMMON ADHERENCE TO THE FUNDAMENTAL DOCTRINES OF PROTESTANT EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY AS SET FORTH IN THE DOCTRINAL BASIS AND THE ETHOS STATEMENTS;5.1.2 FOSTER AND ENCOURAGE A RECOGNITION OF THE ESSENTIAL ONENESS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST AND AT THE SAME TIME A RECOGNITION OF THE LIBERTY OF EACH INDIVIDUAL CHURCH TO CONDUCT ITS WORK AND WORSHIP IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS OWN INTERPRETATION OF THE TEACHING OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE IN RELATION THERETO; AND5.1.3 TO PROMOTE UNITED TESTIMONY TO AND DEFEND THE BELIEFS SET FORTH IN THE DOCTRINAL BASIS

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Harborough, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £209,724 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets from £2,147,867 to £1,938,143. Per the trustees' report, free reserves of £583,000 are sufficient to cover the stated policy target of three months' general expenditure (£495,000). The auditor confirmed that the financial statements are prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Caladine Limited. Discloses 4 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• John Stevens — National Director (source)
• Elinor Magowan — Director for Women's Ministry (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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 £638k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/03/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• IAN MACMICHAELchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Colin Adams · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dafydd Cunningham · trustee of 2 other charities
• Drew Waller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Greig Alistair Rush Ferguson
• Ian Jones · trustee of 2 other charities
• MIKE KENDALL · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mike Hitchings · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ravi Srinivasan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Jeremy Brooks
• Rickey Raja · trustee of 2 other charities
• Stephen Arthur Waud

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ICHTHUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• ICHTHUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £1.5m
• THE ANGEL CHARITABLE TRUST income £44k
• EAST ANGLIAN EVANGELICAL MISSION SUPPORT income £51k
• THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES income £188k
• CHRIST TEMPLE OF WORSHIP income £293k
• CONGREGATION OF ST MARY OF THE ANGELS income £262k

Side by side with its peers

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