EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR THE MANCHESTER AREA TRUST

Registered charity 504453 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NETWORK

Christian work, with particular reference to local Christian inter-church events in the Manchester Area

Objects

A) TO PROCLAIM AND FURTHER THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD AND THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDON AND ELSEWHERE. B) TO ORGANISE SPONSOR AND PROMOTE INTERDENOMINATIONAL CHRISTIAN WORK THROUGHTOUT THE GREATER MANCHESTER AREA AND ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: GREATER MANCHESTER AND NATIONAL

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: Neath Port Talbot, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £324,009.02 and total expenditure was £326,579.91, resulting in a net deficit for the period. The document notes that gifts received were above the expected budget, allowing for increased outreach. No specific reserves policy or unrestricted reserves figure 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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Carl Leslie Brettle · trustee of 1 other charity
• GARETH KILLA · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with MANCHESTER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY (MCC).

• MANCHESTER CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY (MCC) income £49k
• MANCHESTER CCRC TRUST income £310k
• MANCHESTER PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £146k
• TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION WITH SYCAMORE CHAPEL (INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL CHURCH) income £75k
• MIDDLESBROUGH COMMUNITY CHURCH TRUST income £108k
• COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH NORTH MANCHESTER income £122k

Side by side with its peers

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