CHRIST CHURCH BIRMINGHAM

Registered charity 1198783 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIRMINGHAM AND BEYOND

We are a Christian Church that serves the communities of Birmingham and beyond. We run a local pantry in Aston and support and run community activities.We have community and church buildings in Walsall (Redemption Hill Church) and West Bromwich (Living Hope church). We also have a church meeting in Moseley(Grace City) and in Chuckery (Walsall).

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS AND SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated net receipts of £45,204, increasing its total cash funds to £66,896. However, the trustees acknowledge that unrestricted reserves of £16,092 are below their stated policy target of three months' operating costs, though they remain confident in the charity's ability to continue operating.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/06/2024, 135 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steven Kevin Wickingchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Daniel James Crowe · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Daniel Terry
• ROBERT JOHN HAWKES
• Sarah Sidwell

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

Operates in: Birmingham City

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 WEST BIRMINGHAM CHRISTADELPHIAN ECCLESIA.

• WEST BIRMINGHAM CHRISTADELPHIAN ECCLESIA income £41k
• CITY CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £535k
• CHURCHCENTRAL TRUST income £671k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST CHRISTOPHER'S SPRINGFIELD income £430k
• VICTORY OUTREACH CHURCH BIRMINGHAM income £56k
• CHRIST CHURCH BRACKNELL income £92k

Side by side with its peers

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