Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 1
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

NEW LIFE CHURCH CONGLETON 

Church services; Christian courses and events; youth work; children's work; pre-school; coffee shop and bookshop; counselling; operation of community centre; schools' work; community work; assisting homeless people; weddings and funerals; support for overseas missionaries and aid workers; assisting people with addictions; providing food parcels and furniture for the destitute.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22£616£643£-27£0£904£59811.23170
31/12/21£554£563£-9£0£930£63613.63070
31/12/20£625£564£61£0£939£62913.42850
31/12/19£549£550£-1£0£878£597132850
31/12/18£571£544£27£1£879£58812.92550
31/12/17£559£511£48£1£852£57113.4250
31/12/16£535£497£38£1£805£49211.9250
31/12/15£580£548£32£4£767£49210.8250
31/12/14?£650£540£110£5£734£4059250
31/10/13£458£467£-9£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/12£470£459£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/11£441£430£11£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/10£419£381£38£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/09£473£477£-5£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/08£462£457£6£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/07£414£382£31£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/06£359£341£18£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/05£345£320£24£0£0£0n/a00
31/10/04£301£275£26£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 3%
Liabilities/Income: 4%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 66%
Reserves/Spending: 11.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 8 months
Quick Ratio: 18.2
Asset Split ?
Established: 41 years

www.nlchurch.org.uk

mail@nlchurch.org.uk

01260 297961

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Education/Training
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • Religious Activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Cheshire East,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Masonic Trust - MCF Matched Funding
£500 01/12/2021
Unrestricted matched funding in partnership with the local masonic province
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Manager
£25,000 06/09/2018
60
New Life Church will appoint a Community Volunteer Manager to match up requests for volunteers with people who would like to offer their time and skills. This will help to create a viable, repeatable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Strengthening the Family unit
£10,000 17/05/2018
12
The organisation will offer families opportunities to participate in a range of activities, including food and nutrition, fitness, play, budgeting and money awareness, parenting training, and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Community buildings consolidation project 2017
£10,000 07/12/2016
12
This charity in Cheshire wants to improve its community centre so that community groups can make use of better facilities. The funding will be used to replace their shed, make improvements inside the ....more
Cheshire Community Foundation - West wing expansion project
£5,000 27/07/2016
New Life Church aims is to be a signifcant agent for positive change in the Congleton community, making the community one where people are proud to work and live, to their full potential.The project ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Centre Health and Safety improvements 2014
£10,000 27/08/2014
12
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Centre 2013 Expansion Project
£115,000 04/02/2014
36
The project has its roots in the existing Jubilee Club and aims to improve the wellbeing, social inclusion and self-worth of the most poor and vulnerable in the community through the provision of ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Community Centre Refurbishment 2013
£10,000 04/07/2013
12
This is a project by a charity in Cheshire. The organisation will use the funding to refurbish the toilets in the community centre. This will replace the current toilets with safe, hygienic ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Centre Health, Safety & Energy upgrade 2012
£10,000 17/05/2012
12
This is a project by a registered charity in Congleton, Cheshire. The organisation will use the funding to refurbish their toilets for use by the wider community, including disabled people, at their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Danesford Community Centre - Shared Media Technology update
£10,000 12/05/2011
12
This is a project by a voluntary community organisation in Cheshire to equip each room in the community centre with a TV monitor, control panel and cables and brackets and to purchase a new digital ....more
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How is it governed?

Trustees (9)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/12/1983, number: 514539
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Other Regulators
  • Ofsted (Office For Standards In Education)
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
19 returns made; all on time
Main office

New Life Church
Danesford Community Centre
West Road
Congleton
CW12 4EY

Objectives

1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITL. 2. THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK, 3. THE PROVISION OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AT ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT. (FOR FULL DETAILS SEE THE FIRST SCHEDULE)

Defined Area of Benefit:

CHESHIRE AND ELSEWHERE

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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