DOXA DEO COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1177256 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as DDCC · filing overdue (register status)

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

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-4.1. TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS IN THE BOROUGHS OF MERTON AND KINGSTON UPON THAMES AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;4.2. THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE BOROUGHS OF MERTON AND KINGSTON UPON THAMES AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Kingston upon Thames, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts audited by Ark Accountancy 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

1 annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.3 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (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

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• WEST DENTON COMMUNITY CHURCH income £362k
• KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £5.3m
• DOMINION CITY LINCOLN income £52k
• THE DONAS TRUST income £27k
• KING'S CHURCH BASINGSTOKE income £79k
• KINGS CHURCH DARLINGTON income £755k

Side by side with its peers

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