WESTERN COUNTIES & SOUTH WALES EVANGELISATION TRUST

Registered charity 1204505 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WESTERN COUNTIES TRUST

The object of the CIO is to advance the Christian faith for the public benefit in accordance with the Statement of Faith in the Schedule hereto, primarily in England and Wales, and also in such other parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the charity trustees may from time to time think fit.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £754,838 against total expenditure of £432,150, resulting in a net income of £638,941. The trustees report that unrestricted reserves stood at £5,080,931, which is above their stated policy target of £50,000 for the General Fund Free Reserve. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Gravita Audit Western Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Property (HM Land Registry)

86 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (85 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~141.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (85% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/09/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joseph Matthew David Maclanechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW JAMES STREET
• Chris Bartlett
• GLYN JOHN DAVIES · trustee of 1 other charity
• HIS HONOUR MICHAEL RODNEY BURR · trustee of 1 other charity
• James Davies · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark Bodger
• NICHOLAS PETER TOWNSEND
• Paul Dalling
• ROBERT ANDREW CLATWORTHY
• STEWART ALAN SIMMONS · trustee of 3 other charities
• Simon Charles Restall
• Yme Potjewijd · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CENTRE WOLVERHAMPTON.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD, JUBILEE CHRISTIAN CENTRE WOLVERHAMPTON income £502k
• WLJM income £446k
• THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED income £596k
• CHRIST CENTRAL income £521k
• THE C3 CHURCH income £2.4m
• KINGDOM APOSTOLIC EMPOWERMENT CENTRE income £155k

Side by side with its peers

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