YEOVIL COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1170106 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancing the Christian Faith principally in the Yeovil area, and other areas as deemed appropriate. Activities include troubled family support ( "Yeovil4Families"), Youth activities inside and outside schools, supporting "Yeovil Street Pastors" , "The Lords Larder" (aka Yeovil Food Bank). A Coffee Shop is operated on site, and funds are raised to support christian projects in the UK and overseas

Objects

1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF YEOVIL COMMUNITY CHURCH IN ITS VARIOUS FACETS BOTH IN AND AROUND THE AREA OF YEOVIL, SOMERSET AND SUCH OTHER AREAS AS MAY BE DEEMED APPROPRIATE FROM TIME TO TIME INCLUDING OVERSEAS.2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD.3) TO ADVANCE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BOTH TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE, SEX, CREED OR COLOUR.4) TO APPLY THE INCOME OF THE CHARITY IN MAINTAINING THE UP-KEEP AND REPAIR OF THE FABRIC OF ANY BUILDINGS UTILISED BY OR IN CONJUNCTION WITH YEOVIL COMMUNITY CHURCH AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE SERVICES IN ANY SUCH BUILDING OR BUILDINGS.5) CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE GENERAL BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS FOR THE TOWN OF YEOVIL, SOMERSET OR FOR SUCH OTHER AREAS IN WHICH YEOVIL COMMUNITY CHURCH MAY WORK FROM TIME TO TIME AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £8,682 for the year, with total income of £961,809 and total expenditure of £970,491. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,086,625 are sufficient to cover the stated policy target of three months of liabilities, estimated at £150,000. The charity remains in a strong liquidity position with £374,048 in cash at year-end.

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Yeovil Community Church - movement for good (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (62% 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: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Robert David Brazierchair
• Dr Helen Day
• Helena Radford
• KAREN HIBBERT
• Keith Gordon Foy
• MALCOLM JOHN MILLER NICHOLS
• NIGEL HARDY
• Simon Jonathan Peter Collins
• Victoria Bastable

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

Operates in: Dorset · Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, YEOVIL, SOMERSET.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, YEOVIL, SOMERSET income £390k
• Yeovil Day Centre and Community Meals Service income £215k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, YEOVIL income £314k
• CHILTERN CHURCH income £276k
• WOODVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH income £160k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER & ST JOHN THE BAPTIST WIVELSFIELD income £132k

Side by side with its peers

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