WHIRLOW GRANGE LIMITED

Registered charity 701073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH (SHEFFIELD) LIMITED, ST BARTHOLOMEW'S CHURCH (SHEFFIELD) LTD

PROVISION OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATIONPROVISION OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP

Objects

4.1 THE OBJECTS ARE SPECIFICALLY RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT: 4.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION; 4.1.2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION; 4.1.3 SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE DIRECTORS IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT, AFTER CONSULTATION WITH THE BISHOP OF SHEFFIELD'S COUNCIL. 4.2 IN ACHIEVING ITS OBJECTS, THE CHARITY WILL WORK IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND CHURCHES DESIGNATED PURSUANT TO THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND (ECUMENICAL RELATIONS) MEASURE 1988 AND/OR CHURCHES IN COMMUNION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AS SET OUT IN THE CANONS.

Area of benefit: DIOCESE OF SHEFFIELD

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sheffield, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year in a healthy financial situation with a surplus of £10,974 and total funds of £1,643,751. The directors consider the unrestricted fund balance of £111,006 to be sufficient to cover six months of running costs. The charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 12/12/2023, 42 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02236179

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• LOCKE, Andrew — director, appointed 15/09/2025on trustee list
• WOOD, Christine Bernadette, Dr — director, appointed 15/09/2025on trustee list
• COWLING, John Steven — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• JESSOP, Judith — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• BOWEN, Mary Miranda Franklyn — director, appointed 10/06/2024on trustee list
• BROWN, Mark Edward, Revd Canon — director, appointed 14/06/2021on trustee list
• BLACKBURN, Richard Finn, Rt Revd — director, appointed 15/06/2020on trustee list
• BOOKER, David Francis — director, appointed 16/02/2004not on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 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 · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt Rev Richard Finn Blackburnchair
• Andrew Locke
• Chrpstine Hinde
• Dr Christine Bernadette Wood
• John Steven Cowling
• Judith Jessop · trustee of 2 other charities
• MR D F BOOKER · trustee of 5 other charities
• Mary Miranda Franklyn Bowen
• Revd Canon Mark Edward Brown · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Barnsley · Doncaster · Rotherham · Sheffield City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• MR D F BOOKER — trustee here and at CHURCH BURGESSES TRUST

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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