CHURCH GROWTH TRUST LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2027-06-30 (in 1y)
Last filed for 2025-09-30
Confirmation statement due
2026-09-03 (in 4mo)
Last made up 2025-08-20
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£529K
-15.6% vs 2024
Net assets
£25M
+9.8% vs 2024
Employees
9
0% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£601K
-40.7% vs 2024
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Real Estate median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-09-30
| Metric | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £1,867,496 | £1,532,163 | |
| Operating profit | — | — | |
| Profit before tax | £1,014,213 | £601,151 | |
| Net profit | £1,014,213 | £601,151 | |
| Cash | £626,554 | £528,566 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £23,072,981 | £25,202,370 | |
| Net assets | £22,723,734 | £24,942,530 | |
| Equity | £22,723,734 | £24,942,530 | |
| Average employees | 9 | 9 | |
| Wages | £302,254 | £319,728 | |
| Directors' remuneration | — | — |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-09-30 vs 2024-09-30
-
Turnover
-18%
£1,867,496 £1,532,163
-
Cash
-15.6%
£626,554 £528,566
-
Net assets
+9.8%
£22,723,734 £24,942,530
-
Employees
0%
9 9
-
Profit before tax
-40.7%
£1,014,213 £601,151
-
Wages
+5.8%
£302,254 £319,728
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-09-30 | 2025-09-30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | 54.3% | 39.2% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 1.9% | 1.3% | |
| Current ratio | 9.10x | 18.05x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Lewis Brownlee (Chichester) Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees' use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.”
Significant events
- “During the year Bideford Town Mission and a house (previously where CGT was acting as holding trustee), Victoria Hall at Cowes, Rockingham Road Gospel Hall at Corby, Pinehurst Gospel Hall at Swindon and Airedale Gospel Hall at Castleford were gifted to CGT.”
- “Calvary Church at Grimsby was gifted to CGT on 1 October 2025 and Bethany Hall at Wallasey has been gifted to CGT since.”
- “One property has been sold during the year. The was Broomfield Evangelical Church at Chelmsford, where the property was sold to another church and the proceeds of the sale were used to support a building project in the city centre to help City Church Chelmsford.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
10 active · 8 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WILLIS, Garryl Clive | Secretary | 2024-03-14 | — | — |
| CANHAM, Richard Edward | Director | 2017-02-09 | Sep 1953 | British |
| DAVID, Simon Richard | Director | 2024-05-24 | Oct 1959 | British |
| JONES, Richard Alan | Director | 2020-02-06 | Jul 1971 | British |
| LEAFE, Daniel John | Director | 2023-07-20 | Jul 1972 | British |
| RUSSELL, Kevin John | Director | 2025-04-28 | Jan 1961 | British |
| SANLON, Susanna Katherine | Director | 2022-07-21 | Oct 1979 | British |
| WALKER, Neil James | Director | 2012-05-22 | Jun 1958 | British |
| WALLACE, Mark Arthur | Director | 2024-10-03 | Aug 1972 | British |
| WITHAMS, Paul | Director | 2010-08-20 | Jan 1959 | British |
Show 8 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARNOLD, Andrew Martyn Giles | Secretary | 2010-08-20 | 2024-03-14 |
| ALLEN, Nigel Eton | Director | 2017-02-09 | 2022-07-21 |
| FOSTER, David Roger | Director | 2012-05-22 | 2023-02-15 |
| GARDNER, Ian Edmund | Director | 2011-09-13 | 2016-02-04 |
| JAMES, Trevor Ernest | Director | 2013-01-31 | 2023-07-20 |
| LUCAS, Leslie David | Director | 2010-08-20 | 2019-02-06 |
| NAYLOR, Richard John | Director | 2010-08-20 | 2020-02-06 |
| PRINCE, Stephen Paul | Director | 2010-08-20 | 2012-03-29 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 80 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-10-05 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-04 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-08-20 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-06-17 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-05-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-08 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-10-05 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-08-23 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-07-16 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2024-07-15 | TM02 | officers | Termination secretary company with name termination date | |
| 2024-07-15 | AP03 | officers | Appoint person secretary company with name date | |
| 2024-04-15 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-08-21 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2023-08-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-08-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-07-05 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2023-06-01 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2023-03-14 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-24 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2022-08-01 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2022-08-01 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 4
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.