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The Hightower Church

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1166922SidcupPoverty relief
Income£112k2025-04-30
Spending£113ksame year
Spent / received100%5-year average
Size in its cause68th pctPoverty relief
Registered2016CIO
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Hightower Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sidcup. It was registered in May 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides services.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Hightower Church reported income of £112k and spending of £113k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income fell from £124k to £112k (-9.4%), an average of -2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income dropped by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The Hightower Church sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 73rd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Grace Church Caversham (£112k), Hambleton Foodshare (£112k) and St Anne's-On-Sea United Reformed Church Charity (£112k).

Income and spending

£0£31k£62k£93k£124k2021 Income: £123,8002021 Spending: £101,40420212022 Income: £87,8862022 Spending: £104,46920222023 Income: £111,7072023 Spending: £109,16020232024 Income: £99,7882024 Spending: £105,34620242025 Income: £112,1692025 Spending: £113,1232025
IncomeSpending

Where the income comes from

  • Other 100%

In the charity's own words

First, the advancement of the Christian faith in the UK and abroad by such means as the trustees may consider appropriate including (but not limited to) the worship of God; the preaching of the Christian Gospel; the teaching of Christian doctrine. Secondly, the relief of persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress or who are aged, sick or disabled in the UK and abroad.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Grace Church CavershamReading£112k
Hambleton FoodshareNorth Yorkshire£112k
St Anne's-On-Sea United Reformed Church CharityLancashire£112k
The Redeemed Christian Church of God Overcomers House ChippenhamSwindon£112k