COLCHESTER CHURCHES CHARITABLE TRUST

Registered charity 1196920 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Charity receives donations from members of the public and makes donations to Churches in the Church of England Deanery of Colchester to assist with the cost of undertaking capital projects on Church buildings.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO (THE OBJECTS) ARE:A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.B) TO COLLECT MONIES BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION OR OTHERWISE TO ENABLE THE CHARITY TO MAKE GRANTS OR ASSIST CHURCHES IN CARRYING OUT THE IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF CHURCHES AND IN ADVANCING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.C) UNDERTAKE ANY OTHER LIKE WORK OF A WHOLLY CHARITABLE NATURE WHICH THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME CONSIDER RIGHT AND PROPER; PROVIDED THAT THE CHARITY SHALL NOT UNDERTAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE OR PRESERVATION OF ANY CHURCH.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintains free reserves of £100,800, which it considers adequate to meet its policy target of three months' grant expenditure. The trustees report that unrestricted funds are likely to enable further grants for at least three more years, indicating a stable financial position with no material uncertainties disclosed.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev ERWIN BERNARD EDDY LAMMENS MAchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynne Gettings · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nigel Gordon Humphreys MA LLM
• Rev Hannah Rosemary Cooper · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev JOHN CHANDLER ACIB

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

Operates in: Essex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

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

• KINGSLAND CHURCH COLCHESTER income £1.3m
• THE CLERGY REST FUND income £27k
• THE COLCHESTER AND TENDRING COMMUNITY TRUST income £213k
• CHURCH BURGESSES TRUST income £2.0m
• GLOUCESTERSHIRE HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST income £266k
• CHURCH STREET CHARITABLE TRUST income £291k

Side by side with its peers

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