LIFE CHURCH MINISTRIES

Registered charity 1185953 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LIFE CHURCH UK AND LIFE CHURCH HOME

Worship, celebration and youth events. Support of the poor and needy. Educational and training activities. Music and television projects.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group recorded a modest surplus of £23K for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £1.551M and total expenditure of £1.528M. The trustees report that the charity is well placed to continue its work, having mitigated previous challenges through restructuring and loan reorganizations, and confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Thomas Coombs Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: ABUNDANT LIFE RESOURCES LIMITED Companies House 04375729
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 11973632

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• MCCULLOCH, Stewart — director, appointed 13/03/2026on trustee list
• KUSI-MENSAH, John Obadum — director, appointed 02/09/2023on trustee list
• ATKIN, Robert Victor — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• BARNES, Justine Cara — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• JAMES, Jonathan Mark — director, appointed 01/05/2019on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (4 freehold); recorded price paid £2.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (70% 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: 19.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/05/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Obadum Kusi-Mensah
• Jonathan Mark James
• Justine Barnes · trustee of 2 other charities
• Robert Victor Atkin
• Stewart McCulloch

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

Operates in: Bradford City

Income and spending

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Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIFECHURCH MANCHESTER.

• LIFECHURCH MANCHESTER income £979k
• LIFE CHURCH income £176k
• LIFE CHURCH SHERINGHAM income £199k
• LIFE CHURCH WIRRAL income £436k
• LIFE CHURCH (EUROPE) income £1.2m
• LIFE CHURCH (CENTRAL ENGLAND) income £228k

Side by side with its peers

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