01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- CIO
- Registered
- 29 September 2021
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Latest income
- £105,536
- Latest expenditure
- £92,662
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- Yes
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- Yes
Public contact address: Freedom Church ACORN HOUSE, KINGSWOOD ESTATE, Britannia Road, Kingswood, BS15 8DB
Website recorded by the regulator: www.wearefreedomchurch.co.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
Freedom Church Bristol is a Free Methodist Church meeting in Kingswood Bristol, holding a variety of regular church services, educational services, services to relieve financial hardship, public outreach, missionary work and the establishment of new churches according to the same basis of faith.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 30 October 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 30 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £105,536
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £92,662
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 16 September 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 16 September 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £82,527
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £119,608
- Fin Period Start Date
- 29 September 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 20 October 2023
- Date Accounts Received
- 20 October 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £75,432
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £121,514
- Accounts Qualified
- Yes
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Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 30 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £105,536
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £92,662
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £1
- Income From Government Grants
- £500
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 40
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Ar Received Date
- 16 September 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £82,527
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £119,608
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £2
- Income From Government Grants
- £3,100
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- Yes
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 40
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Fin Period Start Date
- 29 September 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Ar Received Date
- 20 October 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £75,432
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £121,514
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- Yes
- Charity Professional Fundraiser
- No
- Charity Commercial Participator
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- Yes
- Count Govt Grants
- £1
- Income From Government Grants
- £1,000
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- Yes
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- Yes
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 30
05 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 104
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Disability
- Classification Code
- 302
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Classification Code
- 205
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Classification Code
- 108
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Religious Activities
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 301
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
07 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- FREEDOM CHURCH NETWORK
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- CIO registration
- Date Of Event
- 2021-09-29T00:00:00
08 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- CIO - ASSOCIATION REGISTERED ONREGISTERED ON 29 SEP 2021AMENDED TO CIO FOUNDATION 14 APR 2024
- Charitable Objects
- TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AS EXPRESSED IN THE “ARTICLES OF RELIGION OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM” (AS PRESENTLY SET OUT IN THE APPENDIX TO THE CHARITY’S CONSTITUTION AND WITHIN THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH BOOK OF DISCIPLINE) AND THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, DISCIPLINES AND USAGES OF THAT CHURCH FOR THE TIME BEING AS SET FORTH IN THE BOOK OF DISCIPLINE, CARRIED OUT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO HOLDING A VARIETY OF REGULAR CHURCH SERVICES, EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, GRANTS TO RELIEVE FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, PUBLIC OUTREACH, MISSIONARY WORK AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW CHURCHES ACCORDING TO THE SAME BASIS OF FAITH.
09 Official extract
Charity Other Names
- Charity Name Id
- 643357
- Charity Name Type
- Previous name
- Charity Name
- FREEDOM CHURCH BRISTOL
10 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Paying staff
- Policy Name
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Complaints handling
- Policy Name
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Financial reserves policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures