MERCIFUL CENTRE
Charity number: 1125223
Charity reporting is up to date (77 days late)
Charity overview
Activities - how the charity spends its money
Merciful Hands : Weekly Food Bank & Empowerment. Mother Deborah Ministries : Domestic Violence advocacy, Lone Parents Support and Basic Life Skills Training. Merciful Centre: Preaching the gospel and supporting humanity. Merciful Aid Poverty Alleviation Foundation: African Aid and Support to the Less Privilege, Widows, Orphans and Children with special Needs.
Income and expenditure
Data for financial year ending 04 April 2024
Total income: £58,138
Total expenditure: £61,957
People
6 Trustee(s)
24 Volunteer(s)
Employees with total benefits over £60,000
No information availableFundraising
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
What the charity does:
- General Charitable Purposes
- Education/training
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Disability
- The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Overseas Aid/famine Relief
- Accommodation/housing
- Religious Activities
- Environment/conservation/heritage
- Economic/community Development/employment
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Other Charitable Purposes
Who the charity helps:
- Children/young People
- Elderly/old People
- People With Disabilities
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
- Makes Grants To Individuals
- Makes Grants To Organisations
- Provides Human Resources
- Provides Services
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Other Charitable Activities
Where the charity operates:
- Barking And Dagenham
- Doncaster
- Essex
- Nigeria
Governance
Registration history:
- 29 July 2008: Standard registration
Organisation type:
Other
Other names:
- THE CHURCH OF MERCIFUL GOD (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
- Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
- Campaigns and political activity 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
- Investing charity funds 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
Land and property:
This charity owns and/or leases 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
6 Trustee(s)
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| Benjamin Adeniyi | Trustee | 02 January 2024 |
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| Adegbola Banjo | Trustee | 02 January 2024 |
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| Grace Folasade Ogundeji | Trustee | 27 May 2016 |
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| Olabisi Bamidele | Trustee | 27 May 2016 |
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| Abisola Olatunbosun | Trustee | 16 February 2014 |
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| Olaitan Agoro | Trustee | 01 January 2003 |
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Financial history
Financial period end date
| Income / Expenditure | 04/04/2020 | 04/04/2021 | 04/04/2022 | 04/04/2023 | 04/04/2024 | ||
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Total gross income | £54.40k | £58.80k | £17.14k | £41.40k | £58.14k | |
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Total expenditure | £52.81k | £55.57k | £21.57k | £36.34k | £61.96k | |
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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 | 04 April 2024 | 22 April 2025 | 77 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 04 April 2024 | 22 April 2025 | 77 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 04 April 2023 | 30 May 2024 | 116 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 04 April 2023 | 06 December 2024 | 306 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 04 April 2022 | 21 April 2023 | 76 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 04 April 2022 | Not required | ||
| Annual return | 04 April 2021 | 21 April 2022 | 76 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR | 04 April 2021 | 21 April 2022 | 76 days late | Download Open in new window |
| Annual return | 04 April 2020 | 15 December 2021 | 314 days late | |
| Accounts and TAR |
04 April 2020
(These accounts |
15 December 2021 | 314 days late | Download Open in new window |