PARISH OF ST THOMAS AND KILVEY PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL

Registered charity 1183903 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

St Thomas Church, Swansea is committed to serving the whole of the City of Swansea to help people reach full potential. We love our neighbour by serving them through our foodbank, night-shelter, baby basics charity, surplus food distribution, mentoring programme and youth and childrens activities. We do this following the command of Jesus to "love your neighbour"

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH, PASTORAL, EVANGELISTIC, SOCIAL AND ECUMENICAL, IN THE PARISH.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted general fund is in deficit because regular giving is insufficient to cover core ministry costs. The organization relies heavily on grant funding to sustain operations, and while income declined in 2024, expenditure rose due to the use of one-off grants for major projects.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — St Thomas Church, Swansea (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2020)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (90% 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 (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Steven Leo Buntingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alison Morris
• Geoffrey Wheel
• Lynda Miners
• Stephen Gardner

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS, HEIGHAM, NORWICH.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS, HEIGHAM, NORWICH income £569k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS NORBURY income £182k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SAINT THOMAS, CROSSCRAKE income £81k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS ,GARSTANG income £190k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE, HANWELL income £142k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST THOMAS' STOPSLEY income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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