INTERNATIONAL PRAISE CENTRE

Registered charity 1181613 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IPC

The charity promotes Christian Religion in the United Kingdom and the world for the benefit of the public through holding church services, prayer meetings and lectures to enlighten others about Christian Religion

Objects

To advance the Christian religion in the United Kingdom and the world for the benefit of the public through holding church services, prayer meetings, and lectures to enlighten others about the Christian religion, and to engage in such other charitable purposes which are exclusively charitable according to the laws of England and Wales.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,357,506, an increase from the previous year's £1,046,588. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £310,918 for the year, funded by voluntary income and the sale of property. Long-term liabilities of £596,020 are held in bank loans, resulting in net assets of £1,357,506.

Automated summary of the FY2025 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
• 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
• 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)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 25/02/2025, 25 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/02/2024, 5 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 12/02/2023, 12 days after the 31/01/2023 due date).

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (67% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ernest Atta-Antwi
• Esther Frimpomaa
• Rev CLAUDE ALFRED HALM-ADJEPONG
• Rev Yaw Sarpong

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 INTERNATIONAL PRAYER PALACE CHURCH.

• INTERNATIONAL PRAYER PALACE CHURCH income £46k
• CHRIST-CITADEL INTERNATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED KINGDOM) income £73k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONSULATE income £186k
• 24-7 PRAYER income £5.3m
• INTERNATIONAL HOUSE OF PRAYER LIMITED income £27k
• HOUSE OF PRAISE, CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £334k

Side by side with its peers

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