ESSEX UNITARIAN CHAPEL AND MINISTER'S HOUSE

Registered charity 230789 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ESSEX CHURCH, ESSEX STREET CHAPEL AND ENDOWMENTS, ESSEX UNITARIAN CHURCH, KENSINGTON UNITARIANS

We provide weekly public worship and organise a regular programme of liberal religious and spiritual education activities for adults and children. We offer a wide range of rites of passage ceremonies. We support social action activities and other charities in their work. We encourage interfaith dialogue. We provide social and emotional support to church members and organise social activities.

Objects

FOR THE REPAIR AND SUPPORT OF THE CHAPEL OR IN THE PAYMENT OF THE STIPEND OF THE MINISTER THEREOF.

Area of benefit: KENSINGTON

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £32,440 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total income of £202,788 against expenditure of £168,609. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £822,049, which the trustees consider accessible enough to cover three months of running costs. The trustees note that the major risk is generating sufficient income to finance staffing levels required for the church's continuing ministry.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elizabeth Tuckwellchair
• Brian Edward Ellis
• Dr Patricia Ann Brewerton
• Jeannene Powell
• Lochlann Binney
• MS HEIDI FERID-HANDS
• The British and Foreign Unitarian Association (Incorporated)

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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