THE FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, STEVENTON, HAMPSHIRE

Registered charity 289359 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Contribute towards the expenses of maintaining or repairing the fabric of St Nicholas Church, Steventon, Hampshire or for the upkeep of its churchyard.

Objects

TO PAY OR APPLY SUCH SUMS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY THINK FIT FOR OR TOWARDS THE EXPENSE OF MAINTAINING OR REPAIRING THE FABRIC OF ST NICHOLAS' CHURCH, STEVENTON, HAMPSHIRE, OR FOR THE UPKEEP OF ITS CHURCHYARD. PROVIDED THAT IN THE EXERCISE OF THEIR DISCRETION THE TRUSTEES SHALL ALWAYS HAVE REGARD TO THE FACT THAT THE SAID CHURCH IS NOT ONLY A PLACE OF WORSHIP FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND BUT BEING A STATUTORILY LISTED BUILDING ALSO FORMS PART OF THE ARCHTECTURAL HERITAGE OF ENGLAND AND IS THUS CAPABLE OF BEING APPRECIATED BY ALL LOCAL INHABITANTS AND VISITORS REGARDLESS OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS.

Area of benefit: STEVENTON PARISH

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: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased from £37,895 in 2023 to £37,697 in 2025, with cash reserves held at £94,828 as of October 2025. The document notes that GiftAid claims for post-March 2025 donations are pending and a grant match payment is awaited. No specific reserves policy or audit opinion is disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Trustees · trustee networks

• Linda Sennitt
• MRS D SMITH
• Marilyn Wright
• Peter Richard Lees
• William Laxton

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, ST ALBANS.

• THE FRIENDS OF ST MICHAEL'S CHURCH, ST ALBANS income £25k
• FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS CHURCH ARUNDEL income £80k
• THE FELLOWSHIP OF ST NICHOLAS income £1.8m
• FRIENDS OF ST NICHOLAS FIELDS income £789k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF GOSFORTH ST NICHOLAS income £140k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST NICHOLAS, TOOTING GRAVENEY income £350k

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