NETWORK EDIFICATION

Registered charity 1169649 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C4 KENT, CHRIST CENTRED CITY CHURCH, GN CHURCH, GOD'S NATION CHURCH, GOV CHURCH, The Governing Church

We are Network Edification charity and our purpose is for the advancement of the Christian religion by creating a platform which facilitates the general public to express their beliefs in the Christian God through worship, religious education and through the creative arts at regular events, conferences and meetings. To provide relief of those in need hardships or distress.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:(A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY CREATING A PLATFORM WHICH FACILITATES THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO EXPRESS THEIR BELIEF IN THE CHRISTIAN GOD THROUGH WORSHIP, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND THROUGH THE CREATIVE ARTS (AT REGULAR EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS WHICH INVOLVE VARIOUS FORMS OF ART INCLUDING SINGING, LITURGICAL DANCE AND THEATRE), THROUGH WEEKLY PRAYER, FELLOWSHIP, GATHERINGS AND AT MID-WEEK STUDY MEETINGS.(B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING SHELTER AND ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN IN ABUSIVE, DISADVANTAGEOUS OR VULNERABLE POSITIONS AND WHO ARE IN NEED OF HELP THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THE PURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEE INVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005 AND SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008.

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Religious Activities · Economic/community Development/employment · Other Charitable Purposes · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bexley, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £27,254, which the trustees confirm is within their stated policy range of covering 3 to 6 months of expenditure. The charity reported a net incoming resource surplus of £6,962 for the year, funded primarily by voluntary income of £65,128 against total expenditure of £58,166.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 02/02/2024, 2 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 23/03/2023, 51 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 02/11/2022, 275 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NOKUTHULA VICTORIA MARKSchair
• AYOTOMIWA OLUFUNMILAYO ODEDOYIN
• MARIAM ADORKORBIDJI
• OPEMIPO ABIOLA

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NETWORK CHURCH.

• THE NETWORK CHURCH income £115k
• Netmakers income £63k
• EXETER NETWORK CHURCH income £419k
• THE SEA OF FAITH NETWORK income £17k
• THE FURTHER FASTER NETWORK income £299k
• Net Church Dartford income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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