Christian Science Society Leamington Spa

Registered charity 237488 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, LEAMINGTON SPA

We are a branch of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston Mass. U.S.A. and as such hold church services on Sundays and Wednesday evenings, as well as supporting a Reading Room where members of the public may purchase religious books or use our free lending library. The Reading Room also provides a quiet study area for people to come and sit, or ask for help or advice from the librarian.

Objects

GENERAL PURPUSES OF A CHURCH AND PROVISION OF A READING ROOM.

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: Warwick, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a stable financial position with a surplus of £3,392 for the year ended 30 June 2025. Total income was £31,154 and total expenditure was £27,762, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £134,042. The trustees confirmed that these reserves provide a strong foundation for ongoing activities.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• 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, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2023 (received 03/03/2025, 307 days after the 30/04/2024 due date); year ending 30/06/2022 (received 15/03/2024, 320 days after the 30/04/2023 due date); year ending 30/06/2021 (received 15/03/2024, 685 days after the 30/04/2022 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (15/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jane Barrett
• Yewande Modupe Akinola CEng FIET

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

Operates in: Warwickshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, PORTSMOUTH AND CHICHESTER.

• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, PORTSMOUTH AND CHICHESTER income £58k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SHEFFIELD income £28k
• JOINT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM UK income £140k
• FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST ALTRINCHAM income £38k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE income £59k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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