GRACE CHURCH ISLE OF WIGHT

Registered charity 1200780 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as GRACE CHURCH

Public worship and teaching ministries.Courses and events to promote the Christian faith.Community services provision such as Foodbank and parent and toddler groups.

Objects

3.1 THE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH ARE:3.1.1 2THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AS A CHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY ACROSS THE ISLE OF WIGHT, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC RELIGIOUS WORSHIP AND TEACHING, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH, OF ADULTS AND CHILDREN BY AN INDEPENDENT CHURCH OPERATING ON CONGREGATIONAL PRINCIPLES; AND3.1.2 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL, IN THE OPINION OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES, FURTHER THE WORK OF THE CHURCH BY PUTTING INTO PRACTICE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF NEED, HARDSHIP AND SICKNESS; THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION; AND THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE3;

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: Isle of Wight, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total expenditure of £150,680 exceeded total income of £145,413, resulting in a deficit of £5,267 for the year. Despite this excess, the charity held retained income of £206,309 at the end of the period, which the trustees have approved in their report.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 2 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 03/02/2026, 3 days after the 31/01/2026 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/09/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev STEPHEN BELLchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Esther Bell
• James Alexander Scott
• Laura Cecilia Woodfield
• Melanie James
• Paul Anthony Wade
• Rev Daniel Adams
• Rev Oliver James Tucker
• Robert Ian Silk
• Simon Henrick

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

Operates in: Isle Of Wight

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH PORTHCAWL income £118k
• GRACE CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £39k
• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH, EDENBRIDGE income £120k
• THE GRACE TRUST income £68.2m
• GRACE CHURCH SALISBURY income £392k
• GRACE CHURCH BRIDGEND income £47k

Side by side with its peers

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