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Registered charity · Manchester

Church Action on Poverty Limited

Church Action on Poverty Limited is a registered charity (number 1079986) based in Manchester, governed by 11 trustees and chaired by Helen Goodman-Seaford since 2020. Latest income £783k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

Also known as Church Action on Poverty (Charity Commission)

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £783k (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities and 1 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website
www.church-poverty.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Church Action on Poverty Limited
Registered
2000

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£783k£767k
  • 2024£747k£820k
  • 2023£770k£784k
Earlier years
  • 2022£461k£645k
  • 2021£816k£697k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

A) TO PROMOTE AND ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN MATTERS RELATING TO POVERTY AND TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND UNDERSTANDING OF POVERTY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM B)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC BY PROMOTING RESEARCH AND STUDY INTO POVERTY AND TO PROVIDE AND ENCOURAGE INVESTIGATION INTO THE PROBLEMS FACED BY THE POOR IN UNITED KINGDOM AND TO PUBLISH THE RESULTS THEREOF C)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PART THAT THE CHURCHES CAN PLAY IN MEETING THE NEEDS OF THOSE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY WHOSE DEVELOPMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN SOCIETY IS IMPAIRED BY POVERTY

Grants received

18 grants · £720,418 total

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

3.7y median 2y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Portfolio (3)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 11General Charitable Purposes 10The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 8Economic/community Development/employment 2Environment/conservation/heritage 1Religious Activities 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 13Professional services 5Other services 4

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£783k latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 2.4 in 2021

15 from 12 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1079986
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 1 JUNE 1999 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTIONS DATED 11 AUGUST 1999 AND 28 MARCH 2000 as amended on 20 Nov 2021
Companies House
Company number 03780243 · Active
Contact on the register
01618729294 · info@church-poverty.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
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