THE CORNERSTONE WORKS LTD

Registered charity 1168380 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity exists to contribute to the advancement of the Christian religion through providing support to other organisations working to advance the Christian faith, providing relief of need, enabling community development and the relief and prevention of poverty.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY:A) PROVIDING SUPPORT IN SUCH WAYS AS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT TO CHARITIES AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND TO PROVIDE CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS LAID DOWN IN THE APOSTLES CREEDB) THE RELIEF OF NEED ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AS AN OUTWORKING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITHC) PROMOTING THOSE ASPECTS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH CONCERNING COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE RELIEF AND PREVENTION OF POVERTY

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £4,703,171, driven by a surplus of £368,775 from rental income and donations. The trustees report the charity is in a stable position with adequate resources to continue operations, noting that reserves are largely held in investment properties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas & Young 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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold); recorded price paid £2.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NICK HOUGHTONchair · trustee of 4 other charities
• James Harold Houghton · trustee of 1 other charity
• SUE HOUGHTON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Kenya · Sri Lanka · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Charities like this

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

• CORNERSTONE BUILDING TRUST income £32k
• THE CORNERSTONE CHURCH GROUP income £226k
• CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £45k
• CORNERSTONE COLLECTIVE OF CHURCHES income £985k
• THE CORNERSTONE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £47k
• CORNERSTONE CHURCH BENTHAM income £57k

Side by side with its peers

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