CROFTLANDS COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 1182318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Christian church operating on Croftlands estate in Ulverston. We hold Sunday services in, usually in Croftlands School. There are several groups meeting during the week in peoples homes for bible study and prayer. We operate a weekly toddler group and also a lunch club. We provide help to those in need. We seek to spread the Gospel to Croftlands estate and see lives transformed by God.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN THE TOWN OF ULVERSTON, PARTICULARLY ON THE CROFTLANDS HOUSING ESTATE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THROUGH : THE HOLDING OF SERVICES FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD, INSTRUCTION AND EDIFICATION OF CHRISTIANS; THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND POVERTY, HOLDING OF PRAYER MEETINGS, PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF CHRISTIAN FESTIVALS, LECTURES, AND PRODUCING AND DISTRIBUTING CHRISTIAN LITERATURE TO ENLIGHTEN OTHERS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. THE POLICY AND PRACTICE OF THE CHURCH SHALL BE INCLUSIVE AND WELCOMING OF ANY WHO WISH TO MEET FOR WORSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT IN ITS ACTIVITIES.

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: Westmorland and Furness, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds carried forward increased to £31,435, bolstered by a substantial legacy gift of £23,278. Excluding this legacy, the charity broke even with a net income of £593, despite a 13% drop in regular income. The charity holds freehold property valued at £150,192 and has no disclosed pension deficits or trading subsidiaries.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries

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

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/05/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Angela Guntrip
• MATTHEW JOHN PARKER
• Sarah Callaghan

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

Operates in: Cumbria

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• MOORLANDS CHURCH income £633k
• COASTLANDS CHURCH income £121k
• CROFTLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION income £36k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CROWLAND income £76k
• GRACE CHURCH CAVERSHAM income £112k
• CROSSROADS CHURCH income £30k

Side by side with its peers

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