NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OF GOD

Registered charity 250306 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NTCG

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Latest income

£12.5m

Latest spending

£12.0m

Registered

1967

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £516,112 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with total incoming resources of £12,487,395 and total expenditure of £11,971,283. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £51,360,431, which is in excess of the stated policy target of approximately £6 million (six months' operating expenditure).

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months' operating expenditure (approximately £6 million) (held: £51.4m)

“It is the usual intention of the Directors that the Company should hold reserves in the form of cash to maintain sufficient free funds to equate to approximately six months' operating expenditure. The Directors have calculated the monthly operating expenditure to equate to an amount of approximately £1 million. This results in an expected reserves amount of approximately £6 million.” — page 13

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Payments to trustees: Remuneration paid to 9 Trustees as Ministers of Religion: Bishop C Grandison (£111,185), Bishop M Cummins (£33,969), Bishop D A Webley (£82,789), Bishop R S King (£48,187), Bishop L Davis (£36,256), Bishop J Jackson (£49,846), Bishop J Haye (£42,950), Bishop D Allen (£33,469), plus one additional trustee not named in the table but included in the count of 9.

“Included within remuneration is £488,913 (2023: £665,136), excluding benefits in kind, paid to Trustees in respect of their services as 'Ministers of Religion' as permitted by the constitution of the charity and in common with many churches and similar religious bodies. There are no Trustees receiving remuneration for their role as a Trustee. The total number of Trustees paid in the year was 9 (2023: 14)” — page 32

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Shaw Gibbs (Audit) Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Bishop Claion Grandison — Administrative Bishop (source)
Bishop Michael Bradley — National Executive Council (source)
Bishop Lincoln Davis — National Executive Council (source)
Bishop David Edwards — National Executive Council (source)
Bishop Hubert Gardner — National Executive Council (source)
Bishop Joel Haye — National Executive Council (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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Total income

£12.5m

Total spending

£12.0m

Cost of raising funds

£20k

Reserves (reported)

£11.6m

Employees

118

Reported reserves equal ~11.6 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (21/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees

Rev CLAION GRANDISONchair
Dr Grace-Bally Balogun
Dr Sara Jayne Ofori
Rev DEREK WEBLEY
Rev David Edwards
Rev Dennis Chacko
Rev Donnovan Allen
Rev Grace WALDER · trustee of 1 other charity
Rev Ian Mark Lewinson
Rev JOEL HAYE
Rev JONATHAN JACKSON
Rev Jacqueline Emanuel
Rev Linford Davis
Rev Mark Sturge
Rev Michael Bradley

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£12.5m	£12.0m
31/12/2023	£11.9m	£11.4m
31/12/2022	£11.3m	£9.8m
31/12/2021	£9.6m	£8.2m
31/12/2020	£9.1m	£8.0m

Common questions

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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	07/12/2023	£100k	"Walsall Windrush Oral History Project"
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	28/09/2017	£95k	"Links to our past - St Johns Cheetham Hill"