CHURCH LANDS

Registered charity 201971 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The objective of the Charity is to pursue the religious and other charitable purposes of the Church of England, within the ecclesiastical parish of St. Michael, Tilehurst

Objects

THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MICHAEL, TILEHURST

Area of benefit: ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MICHAEL, TILEHURST

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: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £230,892.86, derived primarily from rental income of £61,725.00. The accounts are prepared on an accruals basis with no material uncertainties or going concern issues identified by the independent examiner. The charity has no paid employees and relies on trustee oversight and an honorarium-paid superintendent.

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 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 24/05/2023, 205 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Elizabeth Ratcliffechair
• David Bardwell

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

Operates in: West Berkshire

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• THE CHURCH LANDS income £849k
• CHRISTCHURCH, TILEHURST income £82k
• KINGSLAND CHURCH COLCHESTER income £1.3m
• THE CHURCH FIELDS CHARITY income £146k
• ST MICHAEL'S CENTRE (BISHOP'S CLEEVE) income £50k
• CHURCH HOUSE CHARITY income £33k

Side by side with its peers

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