THE COMMUNITY OF GRACE

Registered charity 519849 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as COG

Community of Grace empowers homeless and socially isolated people to transform their lives. We provide support and accommodation and encourage them to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so so that they may become full members of society playing their part in the local community.

Objects

To relieve the needs of persons in Leicester, Leicestershire and elsewhere who are experiencing, or are at risk of, homelessness or social isolation by reason of their youth, age, physical or mental ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage, through the provision of supported accommodation or such other support or therapeutic activities as the trustee think fit.

Area of benefit: LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

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: Leicester, East Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a deficit of £932 for the year ended 31st March 2025, with total income of £41,628 against expenditure of £42,560. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted funds stood at £724,942 at year-end, of which £700,000 was tied up in a long-term secured loan investment, leaving free reserves of £24,942 for day-to-day operations.

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 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee expenses 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

• REVD DAVID HOWLETT · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev DEBORAH BAIRD

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Government & lottery funding

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with GRACE TO GRACE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE.

• GRACE TO GRACE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE income £330k
• GRACE CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £39k
• GRACE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTRE income £50k
• ACCESS COMMUNITY TRUST income £5.9m
• GRACE CHARITABLE TRUST income £2.7m
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD THRONE OF GRACE income £58k

Side by side with its peers

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