CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, OXTED

Registered charity 242971 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, OXTED

The Church has an online Sunday service every Sunday and an hybrid service twice a month including Sunday school at 10 am. On the 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month, an online open meeting is held to share healings and experiences resulting from the study and practice of Christian Science. The church also maintains a reading room in Oxted, open to the public every weekday except Wednesday.

Objects

TO MAINTAIN AND SPREAD THE TRUTH AS SET FORTH IN THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETED IN "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" BY MARY BAKER EDDY THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Area of benefit: OXTED

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state the charity had a surplus of £4,971 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with bank and cash balances increasing to £132,801. The trustees note that while no funds are specifically earmarked as reserves, the charity is dependent on a strong cash balance and donations to sustain activities. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accuracy of the accounts.

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 4 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.

• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/03/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• John Lacychair
• Caroline Margaret Howells
• Mary Ann Ferdinand

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

Operates in: Surrey

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, Exeter.

• Christian Science Society, Exeter income £28k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON income £51k
• FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST OXFORD income £45k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SHEFFIELD income £28k
• SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, LONDON income £384k
• Christian Science Society Leamington Spa income £31k

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