THE CELLAR CHURCH

Registered charity 1172303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Church's activities include main worship services, prayer ministries, youth events and study groups. The charity runs a not for profit ice cream shop for the local community and also uses the shop premises for social events, which includes events where local people can socialise and engage in different activities and seek guidance in the Christian faith.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £8,661 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income of £183,043 and expenditure of £174,382. Per the trustees' report, the end-of-year combined bank balance was £70,637, and the principal source of income is donations from regular attenders.

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 3 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.

• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 02/11/2022, 2 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

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Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD ELLISchair
• Garry Butterfield
• John Robert James Howard
• Nathan John Field

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

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST.

• CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST income £59k
• THE CELLAR SHOP income £44k
• CITY CHAPEL income £186k
• CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST income £379k
• STANMORE CHAPEL income £154k
• CHRIST THE LIGHT CHURCH income £79k

Side by side with its peers

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