AFFINITY

Registered charity 1192455 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Affinity is a partnership of gospel churches, evangelical agencies and individual Christians committed to working together to advance the work of the gospel in the UK and Ireland and around the world.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY MEANS OF A FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL CHURCHES, AGENCIES AND INDIVIDUALS.

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Affinity ended the year with a net expenditure of £18,804, resulting in a reduction of unrestricted funds to £34,638. The trustees report that these reserves are equivalent to just over four months of general expenditure, which exceeds their stated policy target of three months. The charity maintains a going concern status, with trustees expressing reasonable expectation of adequate resources for the foreseeable future.

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 3 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Thomas Brandchair
• Philip Swann
• Rev Alan William John Stevens · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev David Cameron Meredith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Mark Thomas · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev PAUL FREDERICK YEULETT

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with AFFINITY MISSIONS.

• AFFINITY MISSIONS income £61k
• GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE! income £3.1m
• THE PARTNERSHIP TRUST income £206k
• UNIVERSITIES & COLLEGES CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £4.6m
• ASSEMBLIES OF GOD INCORPORATED income £3.5m
• CHURCHES TOGETHER IN BRITAIN AND IRELAND income £558k

Side by side with its peers

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