City Gates Church

Analysis

City Gates Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in April 2004, 22 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 05039715). It says it other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending August 2025, City Gates Church reported income of £76k and spending of £109k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2021 to August 2025, income fell from £143k to £76k (-47%), an average of -14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2022, when income dropped by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, City Gates Church sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lubavitch Kollel (£76k), Zambia and Malawi Community Partnership (£76k) and Carr Trust (£76k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.