WORMLEY FREE CHURCH

Registered charity 1194850 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Sunday Church services at Wormley Community Centre are open to all with children's activities provided. Tuesday Drop In provides a warm space, lunch and a chance to socialise. Wednesday Parents and Toddlers is open to the local community. We are a weekday distribution point for the local Foodbank. A member of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, Evangelical Alliance, and Churches Together.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT ARE TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN WORMLEY, HERTFORDSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£80k
Latest spending
£83k
Registered
2021
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £79,517 from £89,533 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £82,506, resulting in a net decrease in reserves. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £24,197, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure or £13,500.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three months unrestricted expenditure or £13500 whichever is greater (held: £24k)
“It is the church policy to maintain an unrestricted balance of 3 months unrestricted expenditure or £13500 whichever is greater” — page 10
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2025

  • Volunteers: 50

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2024

  • Volunteers: 50

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 30/06/2023

  • Volunteers: 35

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/06/2025£80k£83k
30/06/2024£90k£69k
30/06/2023£57k£51k
30/06/2022£51k£47k

Common questions

Is WORMLEY FREE CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £79,517 from £89,533 in the prior year, while total expenditure increased to £82,506, resulting in a net decrease in reserves. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £24,197, which exceeds its stated policy target of three months of unrestricted expenditure or £13,500. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds WORMLEY FREE CHURCH?

Funders whose own accounts filings name WORMLEY FREE CHURCH as a grant recipient include THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST.

Known funders

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

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
THE JOSEPH RANK TRUSTFY2025£45k

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Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
WORMLEY FREE CHURCH£80k—0above—no doubt
COMMUNITY CHURCH WARNDON FY2025£36k—0unclear—no doubt
WOODLANDS GROUP OF CHURCHES FY2026£2.3m—0unclear—no doubt
WALMER CHAPEL FY2025£60k—0above—no doubt
WOOLWICH COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025£120k—0unclear—no doubt
MOORLANDS CHURCH FY2025£633k—0unclear—no doubt

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