HOLMGATE EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Registered charity 1177176 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Advancing the Christian religion by holding Services of Public Worship, Prayer Meetings and Bible Studies; running Sunday School and other youth groups; providing for the needs of elderly members and attenders; contributing to the work of Christian missionaries in the UK and abroad.

Objects

3.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY WORSHIP, PRAYER, EVANGELISM AND THE READING OF SCRIPTURE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN CLAY CROSS AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND3.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL, IN THE OPINION OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES, FURTHER THE WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH LOCALLY AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.”

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 a net surplus of £31,555 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total income of £105,439 and total expenditure of £136,994. The charity holds total available funds of £60,153, comprising unrestricted and designated funds. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Wycliffe Bible Translators — “Richard Margetts is working with Wycliffe Bible Translators in West Africa, encouraging the use of the Scriptures that are being translated …” (source page)
• Good News for Everyone — “The North Derbyshire Branch of Good News for Everyone was founded in 1973, just around the time that Holmgate Church was being formed, and w…” (source page)

Trustees · trustee networks

• Simon Brewerchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Benjamin Lamb · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Cole
• Danny Foden
• Gareth Pooley · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gareth William Paradise
• REVD PHILIP WATERS
• RODERICK SINCLAIR
• ROSS PARADISE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Julian Geoffrey Lowe

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

Operates in: Derbyshire

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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