THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ASHFORD TOWN

Registered charity 1171191 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASHFORD TOWN PCC, ASHFORD TOWN TEAM MINISTRY

Group of 6 Church of England Churches within the Ashford Town area, sharing the Gospel of Christ, conducting public worship on Sundays and at various times during the week, fulfilling the support and pastoral care of the community and offering the occasional offices of Baptism, Marriage and Funeral to all who live within its bounds.

Objects

PROMOTING IN THE PARISH THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL

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 surplus of £13,562 for the year, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £71,676. The trustees note that regular giving has fallen and the parish failed to meet its planned Parish Share contribution, describing the financial situation as challenging. However, the charity remains solvent with significant restricted reserves and no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Complaints 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~11.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CANON SHIRLEY EDITH LESLIE FMAAT
• CAROLINE SUSAN HANNAH · trustee of 5 other charities
• CLAIRE MULLARD
• Christine Helen Duchemin · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JACQUELINE MARY STAMP
• Jane Appleton
• Julian Daniel Sheehan
• KATHRYN LOUISE SALMON
• LORRAINE CLAIRE ANDREWS CCHEM.MRSC
• Morag Margaret Sharp · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Adam Raymond Childs
• Rev CHARLOTTE LOIS COLES
• Rev Joanne Luise Purle
• SUSAN MARY KATHARINE VARNALS
• Sally Lees

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT HELEN, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT HELEN, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH income £126k
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• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHALK income £136k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE ASCENSION, HANGER HILL WITH WEST TWYFORD, ST MARY income £168k
• PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER & ST PAUL TONBRIDGE income £458k

Side by side with its peers

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