GRACE CHURCH WOLVERHAMPTON

Registered charity 1174223 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a church with Sunday Morning Services and mid week meetings. We provide Bible Preaching and Teaching as well as pastoral care. We also have significant involvement in social action running a bi monthly Soup Kitchen and having involvement in other community based activities that are aimed at relieving poverty, hardship or distress.

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION TO PROCLAIM AND FURTHER THE GOSPEL OF GOD THE FATHER, GOD THE SON AND GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT AND TO PREACH THE CHRISTIAN FAITH2)TO RELIEVE PERSONS IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS ARISING THEREFROM WHETHER IN CONNECTION WITH HOUSING OR ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR ANY OTHER PURPOSE ( WHETHER BY WAY OF LOAN GIFT THE PROVISION OF ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER OR IN ANY OTHER WAY ) TRUSTEES SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO GIVE ASSISTANCE TO ANY SUCH PERSON (OR SUCH OTHER RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION OR BODY HAVING PURPOSES SIMILAR THERETO) IN NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS WHETHER A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OR A MEMBER OF THE WIDER PUBLIC, SUBJECT TO THE TRUSTEES BEING SATISFIED THAT THE ASSISTANCE IN QUESTION SHALL BE PUT TO PROPER USE AND AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL DECIDE FROM TIME TO TIME.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a planned financial deficit for the year, resulting in a net outgoing of £12,439 and a reduction in total funds from £53,135 to £40,696. Trustees note that reserves have reduced over time due to these planned deficits but consider the charity to be a going concern, with income from donations maintaining adequate reserves. The charity maintains a reserves policy of holding approximately three months' equivalent of charitable expenditure.

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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/10/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Denise Anne Bellingham-Young · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Morgan

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

Operates in: Dudley · Sandwell · Walsall · Wolverhampton

Income and spending

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