TRUST PROPERTY AND FUNDS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH AND CONGREGATION

Registered charity 236173 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

Religious activitiesGeneral charitable purposes

Objects

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Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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: Kensington and Chelsea, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£1.0m

Latest spending

£783k

Registered

1966

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased to £1,002,495 from £1,099,087 in the prior year, while expenditure remained stable at £782,503, resulting in a surplus of £219,992. Net assets increased to £10,089,620, with unrestricted funds totaling £5,766,076. The trustees consider reserves of at least twice annual expenditure sufficient to cover unforeseen reductions in income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: at least twice annual expenditure (reserves figure: £5.8m)

“The Trustees consider that reserves of at least twice annual expenditure are sufficient to cover an unforeseen reduction in income or unplanned expenditure.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. 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.

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
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 30
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 30
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Revd C Angus MacLeod — Minister (source)
Revd William McLaren — Associate Minister (source)
Charlotte Bradford — Session Clerk (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

Total income

£1.0m

Total spending

£783k

Reserves (reported)

£3.3m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~51.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH BRADFORD
DAVID ROBERT NICOLSON
ELIZABETH PAMELA FOX
JOHN MICHAEL STEVENSON · trustee of 1 other charity
Roderick MacDonald Buchanan
THE TRUSTEES OF ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH OF SCOTLAND, LONDON

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

Operates in: Kensington And Chelsea

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£1.0m	£783k
31/12/2024	£1.1m	£781k
31/12/2023	£903k	£676k
31/12/2022	£934k	£732k
31/12/2021	£723k	£623k

Common questions

Is TRUST PROPERTY AND FUNDS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH AND CONGREGATION financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total income decreased to £1,002,495 from £1,099,087 in the prior year, while expenditure remained stable at £782,503, resulting in a surplus of £219,992. Net assets increased to £10,089,620, with unrestricted funds totaling £5,766,076. The trustees consider reserves of at least twice annual expenditure sufficient to cover unforeseen reductions in income. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Sayer Vincent LLP.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	06/06/2018	£10k	"Scots in Great War London"

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH CAPEL COFFA CONGREGATION CHAPEL.

TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH CAPEL COFFA CONGREGATION CHAPEL income £20k
CHRIST CHURCH, UXBRIDGE income £231k
SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH income £288k
THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.4m
R. E. CHADWICK CHARITABLE TRUST income £93k
STROUD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £110k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
TRUST PROPERTY AND FUNDS HELD IN CONNECTION WITH ST COLUMBA'S CHURCH AND CONGREGATION	£1.0m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH CAPEL COFFA CONGREGATION CHAPEL FY2024	£20k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
CHRIST CHURCH, UXBRIDGE FY2025	£231k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
SLOUGH BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025	£288k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CUNMONT CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£2.4m	—	unclear	—	no doubt
R. E. CHADWICK CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025	£93k	—	unclear	—	no doubt

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