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Registered charity · Southampton

City Life Church Southampton

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £1.3m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities
Where
Southampton City, India, Thailand
Website
www.citylife.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
City Life Church Southampton
Registered
2003

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.3m£1.1m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.3m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2021£1.1m£1.0m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government contracts 18%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CHARITY’S OBJECTS (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND ARE RESTRICTED TO THE FOLLOWING:(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN SOUTHAMPTON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND OTHER SUCH PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHARITY;(B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION, LIFE-SKILLS TRAINING, HEALTHCARE AND SUPPORT IN SOUTHAMPTON AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;(C) TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH, AGE, INFIRMITY OR DISABILITY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP OR SOCIAL CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE.

Grants received

21 grants · £2,949,193 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £2,247,045 (13 grants)
  • Home Office · £479,848 (3 grants)
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities · £182,500 (3 grants)
  • Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales · £29,800
  • The National Lottery Heritage Fund · £10,000

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £497,8882025-01-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,9262024-09-16
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £10,0002022-10-28
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £109,0002022-04-01
  • Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities £36,7502021-07-21
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.

4 trustees on the board

2y median 2y
average tenure
3y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
11.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

4
company-linked trustees

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

Religious Activities 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4

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

Other services 6Business services 1Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.2m 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.

4.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.3 in 2020

25 from 17 in 2020
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.
29%
Income from governmentiIncome from governmentGovernment contracts plus government grants as a share of total gross income, latest Part A annual return.

Sources

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

Record details
Registered charity number
1100602
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 26/09/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/05/2014
Companies House
Company number 04913171 · Active
Contact on the register
07387108669 · admin@citylife.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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