THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE NEW CHURCH

Registered charity 253206 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SWEDENBORG MOVEMENT

Activities are local churches; providing for young people; web development and the Purley project. The Conference's objectives, detailed in its Memorandum & Articles of Association, are for the purposes of religion of Receivers of the Doctrines of the New Church, signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation of John as contained in the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds £8,711,000 in unrestricted funds, with cash reserves equivalent to approximately 19 months of unrestricted expenditure. The trustees confirm that financial reserves are adequate to meet future commitments, noting a surplus for the year driven by property sales and investment gains.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bates Weston Audit Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

19 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (18 freehold); recorded price paid £241k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~69.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (50% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.0% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (03/08/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Barry Friendchair
• Alison Presland
• Dr John Berridge
• Janice Millar
• Joanne Walton
• Margaret Langslow Cowie
• Susan Chesworth

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE GENERAL CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM COUNCIL LIMITED.

• THE GENERAL CHURCH OF THE NEW JERUSALEM COUNCIL LIMITED income £507k
• NEW GROUND CHURCHES income £450k
• SOUTH ENGLAND CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS income £29.1m
• THE NEW CHURCH COLLEGE income £165k
• NEWPORT PAGNELL BAPTIST CHURCH income £777k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF SWANLEY ST PAUL AND HEXTABLE ST PETER income £262k

Side by side with its peers

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