St Christopher's Community Centre

Registered charity 1175935 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST CHRISTOPHER'S FAMILY CENTRE

The charity is working with young people, children and their families through parent and toddler groups, youth clubs and after school groups, parenting classes and one to one support. The sessions with young people and families are held at St. Christopher's Family Centre and other locations at the Holme Wood estate in Bradford.

Objects

3.1 THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:A) TO PROMOTE THE BENEFIT OF THE INHABITANTS OF HOLME WOOD AND BRADFORD WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF SEX, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, RACE OR OF POLITICAL, RELIGIOUS OR OTHER OPINIONS, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROVIDE FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE SAID INHABITANTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.B) TO ESTABLISH OR SECURE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FAMILY CENTRE AND TO MAINTAIN AND MANAGE THE SAME IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity reported net receipts of £15,604 for the year, with unrestricted free reserves standing at £47,228. This reserve level is within the trustees' stated policy target of 3-6 months of expenditure, which equates to a target range of £23,700 to £47,400. The accounts were subject to an independent examination which noted a serious incident involving historic fraud but confirmed appropriate steps were taken to address internal controls.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev GARY STUART HODGSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• ANDREW SYKES
• LESLEY Allen
• LOUISE CONNACHER

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ST CHRISTOPHER'S FELLOWSHIP.

• ST CHRISTOPHER'S FELLOWSHIP income £16.3m
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S PRE-SCHOOL income £128k
• ST MICHAEL'S FAMILY CENTRE income £597k
• NEW LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE (CROYDON) income £1.3m
• THE GAP CHRISTIAN FAMILY CENTRE income £162k
• KILMARNOCK ROAD CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE LIMITED income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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