ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH & CENTRE

Registered charity 1189599 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ROCC

- To advance the Romanian Orthodox faith for the benefit of the public by the provision of a Romanian Orthodox Church and Community Centre in the United Kingdom;- To advance the Romanian Orthodox faith through the provision of educational, arts, and cultural activities at the Church and Community Centre;- To build or otherwise acquire and maintain a Rom

Objects

1)TO ADVANCE THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY THE PROVISION OF A ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.2)TO ADVANCE THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX FAITH THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATIONAL, ARTS AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AT THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY CENTRE.3)TO BUILD OR OTHERWISE ACQUIRE AND MAINTAIN A ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND RELATED COMMUNITY CENTRE.4)TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AND IN PARTICULAR TO ASSIST THE WORK OF THE ROMANIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM THROUGH ITS OWN ACTIVITY INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO HOLDING RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS OF RELIGIOUS EVENTS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net surplus of £221,862 for the year ended 31 March 2025, driven by voluntary donations and bank interest. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £397,722, which significantly exceeds the stated policy target of £100,000. The trustees confirmed the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Brian Paul Limited. Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £2.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~13.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (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 (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/06/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/03/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Constantin Popescu-Cirstucescuchair
• Aurel-Vasile Abrudan
• Gheorghe Cristian Chelcea
• Luminita-Elena Procopie
• Marius Draghici
• REVEREND SILVIU PETRE PUFULETE

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX PARISH BIRMINGHAM.

• THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOX PARISH BIRMINGHAM income £73k
• SAINT PARASKEVA ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH income £14k
• ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH BRISTOL income £129k
• CHARITY FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC PURPOSES ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF THE COMMUNITY OF THE RELIGIOUS OF JESUS AND MARY income £8.0m
• ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ON MERSEYSIDE income £138k
• "THE NATIVITY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD" ROMANIAN ORTHODOX TRUST income £35k

Side by side with its peers

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