WILDWOOD CHURCH STAFFORD

Registered charity 1169325 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WILDWOOD CHURCH

Works with Newfrontier Christ Central Churches and Stafford Churches. Provides Sunday Services in Barnfields School including Worship and Bible Teaching and childrens groups. The Gateway Building houses the church offices administration and youth Leaders. It also provides rooms for Youth groups and Drop-in activities for the elderly, and other users such as Chinese language classes.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHURCH ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ('THE OBJECTS'):4.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;4.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND4.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that income and expenditure were evenly balanced for the year ended 31 August 2025. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £105,464, which the trustees consider a reasonable level to cover statutory redundancy payments for three months for staff if activity were to cease.

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 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10016724

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Wildwood Church Stafford (matched by registered charity number).

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.

• ADAMSON, Joanne Marie — director, appointed 29/09/2025on trustee list
• LEEBETTER, Christopher Alan — director, appointed 25/11/2024on trustee list
• GOULD, Michael — director, appointed 29/01/2024on trustee list
• WOOD, Glenn Forsyth — director, appointed 21/10/2019on trustee list
• MILLAR, Gordon Burns — director, appointed 08/04/2019on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Jane Marie — director, appointed 20/02/2016on trustee list
• RUSSELL, Graham John — director, appointed 20/02/2016on trustee list

Official officers record.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/10/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christopher Alan Leebetter
• GRAHAM JOHN RUSSELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• Glenn Forsyth Wood
• Gordon Burns Millar
• JANE MARIE RUSSELL
• Joanne Marie Adamson
• Michael Gould

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

Operates in: Liberia · Staffordshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GATEWAY (YORK) CIO.

• GATEWAY (YORK) CIO income £419k
• STAFFORD MUSLIM COMMUNITY CENTRE income £160k
• WOODLANDS GROUP OF CHURCHES income £2.3m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STAFFORD SAINT MARY income £129k
• STAINES CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL income £182k
• SANDON ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH STAFFORD income £134k

Side by side with its peers

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