GRACE CHURCH STOKE ON TRENT

Registered charity 1195662 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Meet to worship God, hear preaching, pray together, run children's activities, enjoy fellowship & be a place of welcome, safety & growth. Meet mid week in small groups for fellowship, worship, prayer & bible study. Train & teach staff & church members. Utilise venue for community projects to benefit many in the community & run social events.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, ARE: A) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR STATEMENT OF FAITH APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN STOKE-ON-TRENT, STAFFORDSHIRE OR OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHARITY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME SEE FIT; AND B) THE RELIEF OF THOSE IN NEED BY REASON OF HARDSHIP, DISTRESS AND/OR SICKNESS, IN PARTICULAR (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE PROVISION OF LOANS, GIFTS, ACCOMMODATION OR SHELTER.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £141,005 while expenditure rose to £120,483, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £69,977 at year-end, which the trustees confirm is above their policy target of covering two to three months of committed expenditure.

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 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (22/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rebekah Louise Chalmerschair
• David Jonathan Michael Keeping
• Nicholas Dane Barlass Bradley-Carter
• RACHEL LOUISE AINSCOUGH
• Wendy Anne Blood

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

Operates in: Staffordshire · Stoke-on-trent City

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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