THE GREAT COMMISSION TRUST
Charity number: 802537
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
GCT presently supports the following: 1. The Great Commission Christco Project (Kenya), including a Christian school in a deprived area near Nakuru, a medical centre, a feeding programme and refugee relief work; 2. Mapping and planning assistance for a city concept in the Volta Region, Ghana.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 31 March 2025
Total income: £33,834
Total expenditure: £32,451
People
4 Trustee(s)
3 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charityFundraising
No information available
Trading
This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.
Trustee payments
No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.
What, who, how, where
Main way of carrying out purposes is grant making
What the charity does:
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Religious Activities
Who the charity helps:
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Other Defined Groups
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
Where the charity operates:
- City Of Westminster
- Kensington And Chelsea
- Wandsworth
- Ghana
- Kenya
Governance
Registration history:
- 12 January 1990: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
No other names
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Complaints handling
- 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
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Investment
- Paying staff
- Risk management
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property
Trustees
Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service
4 Trustee(s)
| Name | Role | Date of appointment | Other trusteeships | Reporting status of other trusteeships | ||||
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| DAVID BERKELEY HURST | Trustee |
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| PAUL APPLEFORD | Trustee |
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| Martin Read | Trustee |
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| JONATHAN FRANCIS WARDELL | Trustee |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 31/03/2021 | 31/03/2022 | 31/03/2023 | 31/03/2024 | 31/03/2025 | ||
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Total gross income | £40.13k | £43.19k | £62.28k | £19.66k | £33.83k | |
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Total expenditure | £50.56k | £43.17k | £63.77k | £24.83k | £32.45k | |
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Income from government contracts | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Income from government grants | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Accounts and annual returns
This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
| Title | Reporting year | Date received | Received | Download |
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| Annual return | 31 March 2025 | 23 December 2025 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2025 | 23 December 2025 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2024 | 02 November 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2024 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 31 March 2023 | 23 January 2024 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2023 | 23 January 2024 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2022 | 14 December 2022 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2022 | 14 December 2022 | On time | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 31 March 2021 | 11 December 2021 | On time | |
| Accounts and TAR | 31 March 2021 | 11 December 2021 | On time | Download Open in new window |