ENFIELD TOWN COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1175011 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BURY STREET COMMUNITY CHURCH, ENFIELD EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, SILVER STREET COMMUNITY CHURCH

Religious activities

Objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH ARE: 1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF ENFIELD AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND2. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL, IN THE OPINION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN GENERAL MEETING, PUT INTO PRACTICE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND SICKNESS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION.PROVIDED THAT THE ADVANCEMENT OF SUCH PURPOSES MUST BE UNDERTAKEN IN A MANNER THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DOCTRINAL DISTINCTIVES AND ETHICAL STATEMENTS AS MAY BE ADOPTED AND AMENDED BY THE CHURCH FROM TIME TO TIME IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE CHURCH HANDBOOK.

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: Enfield, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £47,334 for the year ended 31 December 2024, driven by charitable expenditure exceeding incoming resources. However, the trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £1,160,608 remain well above their stated prudent target of £60,000, and the auditors found no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Carter & Coley Limited. 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 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
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 31/12/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~30.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/02/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• NATHAN PAUL HOWARDchair
• ANDREW WRIGHT
• COLIN CLARK
• DAVID PARKER
• DAVID WISBEY
• Dougal Burrowes
• Jonathan Gregory
• Matt Maher
• ROBERT CAWLEY
• Sam Sinyinza

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST.

• NEWFIELD COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £71k
• MIDDLESBROUGH COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £108k
• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k
• FAMILY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £73k
• CHURCHES TOGETHER IN ENGLAND income £473k
• AINSDALE EVANGELICAL CHURCH TRUST income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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