TOWER HAMLETS COMMUNITY CHURCH

Registered charity 285707 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BENGALI CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK), MILE END CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP LIMITED, TOWER HAMLETS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP LIMITED

THE PROCLAMATION AND FURTHERNCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH PRIMARILY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS BUT ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD AT THE DISCRETION OF THE ASSOICATION.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC ("THE OBJECTS"): 3.1 TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT; 3.2 TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND 3.3 TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE DIRECTORS FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.

Area of benefit: LONDON BOROUGH OF TOWER HAMLETS AN ELSEWHERE

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds total £286,045 against a policy target of three to six months' expenditure, which the trustees consider satisfactory. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year, reducing total net assets from £340,530 to £334,924. The independent examiner confirmed that accounting records were kept and financial statements accorded with those records.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (08/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adele May
• Dr JOHN HOWARD DAY
• SIMON KEMPSON · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Tower Hamlets

Income and spending

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