DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1177256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DDCC

To advance Christian faith and prevention and relief of poverty in Kingston upon Thames and Merton

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

Latest income

£1.2m

Latest spending

£1.2m

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £347,268, with unrestricted funds at £54,874 and restricted funds at £292,394. The charity reported a net income of £8,236 for the year, driven by significant charitable activity income and donations. The trustees consider the current level of reserves satisfactory to enable the trust to function in the short term.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of unrestricted expenditure (held: £55k)

“The trustees believe the Trust requires sufficient level of reserves to enable it to continue to function in the short term (6 months) should there be a major decline in the level of giving to the Trust by members of DDCC.” — page 6

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Grants paid to Doxa Deo Global

“Grants of £19,100 were paid to Doxa Deo Global in the year (2023 £16,800)” — page 25

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Ark Accountancy Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

IOANNIS DEKAS — City Leader / European Leader (source)
CHERAY DEKAS — City Leader / European Leader (source)
PAUL PICKHAVER — Lead – City Changer Projects, London (source)
IAN JACOBS — Lead – City Changer Projects, Kingston (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£1.2m

Total spending

£1.2m

Cost of raising funds

£48k

Reserves (reported)

£34k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (63% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 4.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (25/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (06/06/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Allen James Powley
Frederik Johannes Strydom
Ioannis Dekas
JOHN GEOFFREY HOWARTH
John Chrisjan Daniel Symons

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£1.2m	£1.2m
31/12/2023	£918k	£922k
31/12/2022	£862k	£822k
31/12/2021	£502k	£516k
31/12/2020	£768k	£581k

Common questions

Is DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total funds increased to £347,268, with unrestricted funds at £54,874 and restricted funds at £292,394. The charity reported a net income of £8,236 for the year, driven by significant charitable activity income and donations. The trustees consider the current level of reserves satisfactory to enable the trust to function in the short term. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Ark Accountancy Limited.

Who funds DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH?

Funders whose own accounts filings name DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH as a grant recipient include SOCIETE GENERALE UK FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
SOCIETE GENERALE UK FOUNDATION	FY2024	£5k	Gibraltar Winter Appeal (Note: Text says EV Foundation, Table says Doxa Deo Community Church. Extracting table name)
SOCIETE GENERALE UK FOUNDATION	FY2023	£3k	Grants for one-off donations: GibSams (Note: Name in Note 8 is Doxa Deo, text says GibSams. I will use Note 8 name).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ( NORTHERN PROVINCE) TRUST LTD.	1	£46k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with King's Community Church, Lancaster.

King's Community Church, Lancaster income £111k
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD "CITY OF HIS GRACE" income £150k
KINGSTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY income £292k
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CENTRE WOLVERHAMPTON income £502k
WEST DENTON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £362k
CANBURY PARK CHURCH TRUST income £150k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH	£1.2m	—	above	—	no doubt
King's Community Church, Lancaster FY2025	£111k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD "CITY OF HIS GRACE" FY2024	£150k	—	above	—	noted
KINGSTON UNITED REFORMED CHURCH CHARITY FY2025	£292k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CENTRE WOLVERHAMPTON FY2025	£502k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
WEST DENTON COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025	£362k	—	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.