Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 2

Liabilities <10%: +3
Excess reserves: -3
Pension deficit: -1

All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -2

THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH

The aim of The Apostolic Church is to spread the Christian gospel within the United Kingdom through its network of local churches. This includes traditional Sunday services and a variety of local church activities involving children, youth and adults. Also the Church provides regular financial support to missionaries in a number of other countries.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity has a robust balance sheet
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

This charity has substantial assets and unrestricted reserves of £17,536,887 available, equivalent to 39 months of spending and so may not be able to utilise additional funding
There is a pension deficit of £1,103,000

Established: 63 years

www.apostolic-church.org

admin@apostolic-church.org

02075871802

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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
31/03/23		£5,787	£5,390	£397	£0	£21,016	£17,537	39	77	320
31/03/22		£5,543	£4,887	£656	£0	£20,104	£16,513	40.5	86	320
31/03/21		£5,411	£4,396	£1,016	£0	£19,225	£15,577	42.5	93	325
31/03/20		£6,195	£5,495	£700	£0	£18,316	£14,634	32	89	350
31/03/19		£6,377	£5,311	£1,066	£0	£17,701	£14,217	32.1	91	355
31/03/18		£6,012	£5,127	£885	£0	£16,117	£12,729	29.8	90	0
31/03/17		£5,911	£4,848	£1,063	£0	£15,369	£12,194	30.2	71	0
31/03/16		£5,877	£5,308	£569	£0	£14,363	£11,422	25.8	65	0
31/03/15		£5,571	£4,938	£633	£178	£13,615	£10,834	26.3	68	0
31/03/14		£5,292	£4,908	£385	£200	£13,490	£10,972	26.8	69	0
31/03/13		£5,207	£4,763	£443	£195	£13,488	£11,028	27.8	68	0
31/03/12	*	£5,728	£4,996	£732	£158	£15,241	£13,300	31.9	64	0
31/03/11	*	£5,468	£5,299	£169	£166	£15,255	£13,895	31.5	82	0
31/03/10	*	£2,693	£2,857	£-165	£10	£11,949	£11,389	47.8	73	0
31/03/09	*	£2,417	£3,220	£-803	£12	£12,113	£11,684	43.5	53	0
31/03/08	*	£2,847	£2,613	£233	£9	£12,917	£12,436	57.1	59	0
31/03/07		£2,374	£2,360	£13	£22	£12,683	£12,140	61.7	57	0
31/03/06		£2,231	£1,989	£242	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/05		£1,934	£1,884	£50	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/03/04		£2,096	£1,707	£389	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 22%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 83%
Reserves/Spending: 39 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 23 months
Quick Ratio: 48.3

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Religious Activities
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

How it operates

Other charitable activities
Provides human resources

Where it operates

Angola, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Chile, Hungary, India, Kenya, Latvia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan, Romania, Scotland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Throughout England And Wales, Vietnam, Zimbabwe,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

77 employees
320 volunteers

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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Hackbridge Apostolic Church
£3,680	24/10/2020	We aim to acquire our own space so we can run various community activities, e.g. music, indoor sports, a crèche, and a food bank.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	07/02/2020	Hill House Refurbishment
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000	23/05/2018	Disabled Access
County Durham Community Foundation - New Kitchen facility
£2,500	08/11/2016	Towards a new kitchen facility.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (7)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 6/7 persons

DOMINIC JASON BIRD Appointed: 2019, Other trusteeship: SUNNYHILL CHURCH,

REV ALAN SKENE Appointed: 2023

REV ALISTAIR MATHESON Appointed: 2019

REV CRAIG HOPKINS Appointed: 2019

REV IVAN PARKER (Chair) Appointed: 2014

REV PHELIM DOHERTY Appointed: 2022

REV SIMON TAYLOR Appointed: 2017

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 01/05/1961, number: 284789

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Event History

23/05/2012 - Asset transfer in from THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH INTERNATIONAL WORSHIP CENTRE
08/01/2016 - Asset transfer in from MAIDSTONE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH
02/05/2018 - Asset transfer in from CILCOED CHRISTIAN CENTRE
23/08/2023 - Asset transfer in from CARMARTHEN EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management 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
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR12: 1 days late, AR11: 2 days late, AR10: 2 days late, AR09: 157 days late, AR08: 14 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from CARMARTHEN EVANGELICAL CHURCH on 23/08/2023

Main office

THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH HEAD OFFICE
Suite 105 & 110 Crystal House
New Bedford Road
Luton
LU1 1HS

Objectives

THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.THE PROMOTION OF ANY OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSE CONSISTENT WITH THE CHRISTIAN MISSION OF THE CHURCH AND IN PARTICULAR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK, ELDERLY AND POOR.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

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