GROVE FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Registered charity 283079 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH - GROVE

To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the doctrinal basis as the Trustees think fit. To relieve people who are in conditions of hardship or who are aged or sick in the local community and else where as the Trustees think fit. To promote and fulfil other such charitable purposes beneficial to the community and elsewhere as the Trustees think fit.

Objects

THE CHURCH IS FORMED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINAL BASIS AS SET OUT IN THE CONSTITUTION.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED

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: Vale of White Horse, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income
£45k
Latest spending
£50k
Registered
1981
Accounts read
FY2026

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The provided document is an Independent Examiner's Report for Grove Free Evangelical Church for the year ended 31 March 2026. It confirms that the examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners and states that no material matters came to the examiner's attention regarding the accounting records or the form and content of the accounts. The report does not include the financial statements themselves, so specific details on reserves, income, or expenditure are not available in this text.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 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.

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2026

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2025

  • Volunteers: 15
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/03/2024

  • Volunteers: 28
  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; other trustee benefit

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 14/04/2024, 74 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Oxfordshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2026£45k£50k
31/03/2025£52k£52k
31/03/2024£45k£46k
31/03/2023£41k£45k
31/03/2022£38k£38k

Common questions

Is GROVE FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH financially healthy?

Per its FY2026 accounts: The provided document is an Independent Examiner's Report for Grove Free Evangelical Church for the year ended 31 March 2026. It confirms that the examination was carried out in accordance with the General Directions given by the Charity Commissioners and states that no material matters came to the examiner's attention regarding the accounting records or the form and content of the accounts. The report does not include the financial statements themselves, so specific details on reserves, income, or expenditure are not available in this text. Its FY2026 accounts were independently examined.

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
THE JOSEPH RANK TRUST1£30k
DUMBRECK CHARITY1£1k
THE EDWARD AND DOROTHY CADBURY TRUST1£1k

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRAVESEND METHODIST CHURCH.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
GROVE FREE EVANGELICAL CHURCH£45k——unclear—no doubt
GRAVESEND METHODIST CHURCH FY2026£127k——unclear—no doubt
HASBURY COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025£44k—0unclear—no doubt
SAFFRON WALDEN COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2026£205k——unclear—no doubt
OTFORD EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH FY2025£72k—0within—no doubt
GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH PORTSMOUTH FY2026£56k——unclear—no doubt

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