Grace Communion International

Registered charity 311098 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Ambassador College, GCI, WCG, WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD, Worldwide Church of God · also registered in Scotland as SC040008 (OSCR)

To spread the Good News of Jesus Christ - this is done by holding services open to the public throughout the UK and Ireland, putting on conferences, providing resources online such as a daily devotional and the running of a two week youth summer camp with a variety of outdoor activities.

Objects

4.1. The Objects of the Charity are to advance the Christian Faith in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs, for the public benefit, and in particular (but without limitation); 4.1.1. to proclaim the Christian Faith across the UK and around the world for a witness to all nations by the spoken word, radio, television, recording, in print, by electronic media, by any and all legally acceptable means and personal evangelism; 4.1.2. to work for the salvation of souls and to raise up and organise local church congregations; 4.1.3. to minister to edify believers and to assemble people together in worship of Almighty God for mutual edification and Christian fellowship in Jesus Christ; 4.1.4. to ordain and grant credentials or licence to preach to such as the Charity believe to be called of God and qualified according to Holy Scripture as evangelists, ministers, elders or deacons; 4.1.5. to promote and provide for the advancement of education in the liberal arts and theology and to conduct, carry on and acquire in the UK colleges and seminaries for the education of people in these subjects and for the service and ministry of God and to offer appropriate courses of instructions; and 4.1.6. to carry out such other charitable purposes as shall, in the opinion of the Trustees, put into practice the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs, including but not limited to the prevention and relief of need, hardship and sickness, and the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disability, financial hardship or social circumstances with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.2. Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008. 4.3 This Article 4 may be amended by Special Resolution, but only with the prior written consent of the Charity Commission. 4.4 The Statement of Beliefs may be amended or supplemented by a resolution of the Trustees passed by a majority of at least 75% of them, provided that any such amendments or supplemental statements shall be consistent with the Statement of Beliefs as at the date of adoption of these Articles.

Area of benefit: UNITED KINGDOM AND BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity remains in good financial health with significant unrestricted reserves of £2,096,551, which are significantly above the trustees' policy target of six months' operating expenses (£190,000). However, the charity reported a net movement in funds of £35,479, noting that income in 2025 was below expenditure, a position supported by a £45,000 legacy receipt.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MHA. 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
• 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~25.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (90% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Lambuchair
• Emily Asor Gyimah
• Hilary Buck
• James Joseph Casey
• James Mc Ivor
• Maureen Unita Watson

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - GREAT GRACE ASSEMBLY.

• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD - GREAT GRACE ASSEMBLY income £266k
• IGLESIA NI CRISTO (CHURCH OF CHRIST) income £7.2m
• GLOBAL CHURCH OF GRACE MINISTRIES income £194k
• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £85k
• GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH, EDENBRIDGE income £120k
• GRACE TO GRACE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE income £330k

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