CITY LIFE CHURCH (PORTSMOUTH)

Registered charity 1182810 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS TANGIER ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH

CITY LIFE CHURCH EXISTS TO PROMOTE THE GOSPEL OF JESUSCHRIST THAT THROUGH HIM WE MAY HAVE SALVATION ANDETERNAL LIFE. THIS IS DONE BY LOVING GOD, REACHING OUT ANDSERVING PEOPLE THROUGH VARIOUS ACTIVITIES WITHIN OUR CITY.THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH IS THE ADVANCEMENT OFTHE CHRISTIAN FAITH. THE CHURCH MAY ALSO ADVANCEEDUCATION AND CARRY OUT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THEUK

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ACCORDING TO THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN'S DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLE OF 1873 AS UPDATED IN 1904, 1906 AND 1938. THE CIO MAY ALSO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND CARRY OUT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR OTHER PARTS OF 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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Registered contact address: Portsmouth, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in a solvent position financially and has no uncertainties regarding its continuing as a going concern. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £20,192 and total funds of £119,498, operating under a policy to hold six months of running costs. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention that would suggest the accounts are not prepared in accordance with the Act.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 12/12/2025, 42 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 12/12/2023, 42 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — CITY LIFE CHURCH PORTSMOUTH (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Kevin Husseychair
• BARBARA DOLLIMORE
• Daniel Harman
• Thomas Edward Weekes

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

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

• LIFE CITY CHURCH income £415k
• NEW LIFE CHURCH WORTHING income £186k
• CITY LIFE CHURCH SOUTHAMPTON income £1.3m
• LIFE CHURCH DONCASTER income £95k
• CHRISTIAN LIFE CHURCH income £712k
• CHAPEL OF LIFE income £285k

Side by side with its peers

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