THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ST MARY OF ZION

Registered charity 282910 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Our overseas activities include shipment of barrels to the Caribbean Islands and Ethiopia at the request of their community leaders, filled with clothing and books. Raise funds on behalf of Christian Community appeals in Ethiopia.Continue to raise funds to renovate our building, formerly a cinema then nightclub into a community centre / place of worship.

Objects

TO PROPGATE THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST BY ADVANCING THE ETHIOPOAN ORTHODOX FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ST MARY OF ZION PARTICULARLY IN LONDON.

Area of benefit: GREATER LONDON AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a significant surplus of £1,414,355 for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven largely by exceptional fundraising income from a Donkey Tube telethon. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £353,957, although the trustees acknowledge this level is below their long-term target due to the ongoing church development project. The charity maintains adequate cash reserves of £693,470 and has concluded there are no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Walden Way and Company Ltd. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~24.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 6.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Georgia Ann Lewis
• Guy Tombs
• Keith Samuels
• Pauline Evadne Anderson
• Trevor Field

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

Operates in: Barbados · Ethiopia · Guyana · Jamaica · Throughout London · Trinidad And Tobago

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON DEBRE SEMAYAT MEDHANEALEM AND ST. GABRIEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH.

• LONDON DEBRE SEMAYAT MEDHANEALEM AND ST. GABRIEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH income £216k
• DEBRE TSIGE ST.URAEL ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHIDO CHURCH income £124k
• ST MARY ERITREAN ORTHODOX TEWAHDO CHURCH income £216k
• DEBRE SELAM MEDHANEALEM ERITREAN ORTHODOX TEWAHDO CHURCH CARDIFF income £330k
• MOUNT ZION CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (FREEDOM ARENA) income £788k
• TAUNTON MINSTER (THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY MAGDALENE, TAUNTON) income £420k

Side by side with its peers

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