REDDITCH RENEWAL CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 1211663 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST STEPHENS CHURCH, REDDITCH

Redditch Renewal Churches Trust advances the Christian faith and serves the people of Redditch through worship, prayer, discipleship, youth and children's work, community outreach, pastoral support, leadership development, and partnerships with local organisations. The Trust also stewards and develops St Stephen's Church for worship, mission, and community benefit.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE REDDITCH RENEWAL CHURCHES TRUST (RRCT) CIO ARE:-TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN COOPERATION WITH THE MINISTER IN PROMOTING THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH IN REDDITCH AND MORE WIDELY THROUGHOUT THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BELIEFS, DOCTRINES AND PRACTICES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND ('THE CHURCH'), IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY:A) RESOURCING THE CHURCH OF ST STEPHEN?S, REDDITCH AS A PLACE OF PUBLIC WORSHIP AND MISSIONB) SERVING AND REACHING THE COMMUNITY OF REDDITCH AND WIDER NETWORKS OF PEOPLE CONNECTED WITH THAT COMMUNITYC) PROVIDING COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND ACTIVITIES IN REDDITCH WHICH BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE COMMUNITY AND INTERESTED ORGANISATIONS, ADVANCING EDUCATION AND LEARNING, ADDRESSING SOCIAL WELFARE NEEDS, AND PROVIDING LEISURE TIME AND RECREATION OCCUPATIOND) IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE COMMUNITY OF REDDITCH AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BY DEVELOPING THE CAPACITY AND SKILLS OF COMMUNITY MEMBERS, PREVENTING OR RELIEVING POVERTY, AND PROMOTING SOCIAL INCLUSIONE) RESOURCING THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH MORE WIDELY BY PROVIDING TRAINING AND TEAMS OF PEOPLE FOR CHURCH PLANTING AND RENEWAL ELSEWHEREF) CONTRIBUTING, INCLUDING FINANCIALLY TO THE WORK OF THE CHURCH THROUGHOUT THE DIOCESE OF WORCESTER

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 unrestricted free reserves stood at £9,576 at year-end, which is below the trustees' stated target of three months of core operating expenditure. The charity reported total funds of £604,770, heavily weighted towards restricted funds (£439,928) designated for the Renewal Project, while unrestricted funds were depleted by significant investment in staffing and building works during the transition period.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (27/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alex Scammell
• Andrew Blount
• Gideon Prasad
• Irene Yates · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jo Sprague
• Karl Smith
• Rev Fraser Oates · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rhiannon Walpole
• Ronald John Skelton

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

Operates in: Worcestershire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF REDDITCH HOLY TRINITY.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF REDDITCH HOLY TRINITY income £324k
• THE CHURCH RENEWAL TRUST income £152k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF REDLAND, BRISTOL income £455k
• REDDITCH MOSQUE TRUST income £119k
• RCCG - CITY OF REDEMPTION PARISH income £163k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD NEWNESS OF LIFE CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £229k

Side by side with its peers

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