ASHBURNHAM CHRISTIAN TRUST

Registered charity 212755 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ASHBURNHAM CHRISTIAN TRUST LIMITED

Christian Residential Prayer & Conference Centre

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND PARISHES OF ASHBURNHAM AND PENHURST

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rother, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £72,900 in unrestricted funds, bringing the total unrestricted fund balance to £3,580,724. However, restricted funds experienced a deficit of £214,998, largely due to capital improvements funded by prior-year donations. The trustees maintain that the charity is financially sustainable and has adequate resources 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 HJS Accountants Limited. 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 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
• 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)

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00653062 · Financial health read from its filings

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Ashburnham Place (matched by registered charity number).

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• DREW, Rebekah Milly — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• DUDGEON, Jennifer Joan — director, appointed 15/06/2022on trustee list
• MAYHEW, Mark William — director, appointed 15/03/2022on trustee list
• HOEK, Marijke, Dr — director, appointed 28/03/2018on trustee list
• HUNTLEY, Jillian Kathryn — director, appointed 04/12/2015on trustee list
• DJAN, Ray Michael, Revd. — director, appointed 20/09/2008on trustee list
• OOMMEN, Fiona Alexandra Margaret — director, appointed 09/10/2004on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Roger Hayden — director, appointed 23/02/1995on trustee list
• PROUDFOOT, Andrew James — secretary, appointed 06/01/2015

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% 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: 4.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr MARIJKE HOEK
• FIONA ALEXANDRA MARGARET OOMMEN
• Jennifer Dudgeon · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jillian Kathryn Huntley
• Mark William Mayhew
• ROGER HAYDON MITCHELL
• Rebekah Drew
• Rev RAY MICHAEL DJAN · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: East Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CENTRE MINISTRIES.

• CENTRE MINISTRIES income £1.8m
• CHILTERN CHRISTIAN TRUST income £33k
• THE WORSHIP CENTRE income £13k
• CHRISTIAN PRISON RESOURCING income £181k
• THE CHRIST CHURCH TRUST income £232k
• CHRIST CHURCH, UXBRIDGE income £231k

Side by side with its peers

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