CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH (PADDINGTON) GENERAL PURPOSES FUND

Registered charity 245205 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PADDINGTON CHURCH TRUST

Paddington Church Trust is a religious purposes charity relating to the Catholic Apostolic Church at Maida Avenue, London, W2 1SR.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE CLEAR INCOME AND AT THEIR DISCRETION THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION

Area of benefit: PADDINGTON

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: Cornwall, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£122k

Latest spending

£147k

Registered

1965

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity is being wound up and its financial statements are prepared on a non-going concern basis, as the majority of trustees no longer regard the trust as appropriate to continue. The unrestricted reserves stand at £247,900, while the charity holds significant endowed funds of £3,911,400, primarily from investment gains. The trustees are seeking Charity Commission consent to transfer the Tithe and General Offerings Funds to the Principal Trustees to facilitate the closure of the charity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Going concern: accounts NOT prepared on a going-concern basis (closing, merging or winding up)

“The accounts have been prepared on the basis that the majority of the Trustees no longer regard the Paddington Church Trust as a going concern.” — page 16

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Saffery LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → not a going concern (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
Complaints policy and procedures
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

Trustees · trustee networks

ANDREW DAVID KILMAINE DE FERRARS · trustee of 1 other charity
BENJAMIN JAMES VINEY
JAMES KILLMAINE GRAHAM DE FERRARS
MR MICHAEL CARTER

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£122k	£147k
31/12/2024	£124k	£153k
31/12/2023	£153k	£150k
31/12/2022	£157k	£112k
31/12/2021	£338k	£138k

Common questions

Is CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH (PADDINGTON) GENERAL PURPOSES FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The charity is being wound up and its financial statements are prepared on a non-going concern basis, as the majority of trustees no longer regard the trust as appropriate to continue. The unrestricted reserves stand at £247,900, while the charity holds significant endowed funds of £3,911,400, primarily from investment gains. The trustees are seeking Charity Commission consent to transfer the Tithe and General Offerings Funds to the Principal Trustees to facilitate the closure of the charity. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Saffery LLP.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TENDRING COMMUNITY VOLUNTARY SERVICES	1	£800

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION THEREWITH income £930k
PIER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH income £93k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES PADDINGTON income £467k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIATICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, ADDINGTON income £131k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CUDDINGTON IN THE DIOCESE OF GUILDFORD income £157k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH (PADDINGTON) GENERAL PURPOSES FUND	£122k	—	0	unclear	—	not going concern
CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION THEREWITH FY2026	£930k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
PIER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025	£93k	unclear	0	within	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES PADDINGTON FY2025	£467k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIATICAL PARISH OF ST MARY THE BLESSED VIRGIN, ADDINGTON FY2025	£131k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CUDDINGTON IN THE DIOCESE OF GUILDFORD FY2025	£157k	—	0	unclear	1.8%	no doubt

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