THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH

Registered charity 284789 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of The Apostolic Church is to spread the Christian gospel within the United Kingdom through its network of local churches. This includes traditional Sunday services and a variety of local church activities involving children, youth and adults. Also the Church provides regular financial support to missionaries in a number of other countries.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £129,383 for the year, primarily driven by £520,000 in actuarial losses on defined benefit pension schemes. Despite this deficit, the charity holds substantial free/unrestricted reserves of £18,148,603, which the trustees describe as healthy, allowing the organization to meet its obligations and continue its ministry.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burgess Hodgson Audit Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Apostolic Church (matched by registered charity number).

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). 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 ~43.1 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 (74% 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: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (23/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/05/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/01/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (23/05/2012) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Ivan Parkerchair
• Dominic Jason Bird · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Alistair Matheson
• Rev Craig Hopkins
• Rev Phelim Doherty
• Rev Thomas Alan Skene

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

Operates in: Angola · Belgium · Brazil · Burma · Chile · Hungary · India · Kenya · Latvia · Malawi · Mozambique · Namibia

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

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

• CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH income £189k
• CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH (OUTREACH) income £412k
• CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH GREAT BRITAIN HEADQUARTERS income £156k
• THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH - GHANA income £110k
• APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH (SHEEPFOLD) income £252k
• THE APOSTLES' CONTINUATION CHURCH INTERNATIONAL UK income £364k

Side by side with its peers

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