Emmanuel Community Church Duffield

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Derbyshire church trust meeting in an 1843 former Methodist chapel valued at £688,222; its 2024 accounts do not mention Israel, which the register lists among its areas of operation

Emmanuel Community Church Duffield

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Emmanuel Christian Centre, Chapel Street, Duffield (2015), the charity's registered address
Type Trust
Founded 2008-02-25 (registered)
Registration ID Registered charity 1122938
Headquarters Emmanuel Christian Centre, Duffield DE56
Area served Derbyshire, Derby City, Israel, Nepal
Website www.emmanuelduffield.org


Emmanuel Community Church Duffield is a charitable trust established by a declaration of trust of 5 November 2007 and registered on 25 February 2008; its address is the Emmanuel Christian Centre, Chapel Street, Duffield DE56.[1][2] Its objects are the advancement of the Christian faith, the relief of poverty, need and hardship, and the provision of educational and recreational facilities; the register describes its main aim as "the promotion of the Christian Gospel both in the UK and abroad".[2][3] The 2024 report says the church was formed in 1985 and bought the Old Methodist Chapel in 1986, "our excellent stone building of 1843"; the average congregation is about thirty, and the building is hired to a Schools Out Club, Girl Guides and the "Massive" youth club.[2] The trustees are Chris Greaves (financial director and chair), Steve Taylor and David Ellis, matching the register's Chris Greaves, Steve Taylor and David Ellis (from 19 November 2023).[2][3] Receipts in 2024 were £46,578 (2023: £54,499): voluntary income of £38,442, lettings of £7,990 and investment income of £146; payments were £32,019 (2023: £63,683), of which £24,979 was building upkeep, £4,320 salaries, £1,070 home ministry, £850 miscellaneous and £800 grants and donations; cash at the year end was £25,157.[2] The statement of assets gives the church building a current value of £688,222 and fixtures and fittings £35,306.[2] The accounts were examined by Andrew Watkins ACMA of Derby DE21 (the date is illegible in the scanned copy), and the report was signed by Chris Greaves on 20 August 2025.[2]

Objects and activities

The charity's registered objects read: "A TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO IN DUFFIELD DERBYSHIRE AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE TRUST.B TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED OR HARDSHIP OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK AND TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS CAUSED THEREBY IN THE SAID LOCATION AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.C TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR EDUCATIONAL RECREATIONAL AND OTHER LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE NEED BY REASON OF THEIR YOUTH POVERTY OR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN DUFFIELD AFORESAID AND IN SUCH OTHER PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT."[3]

The register describes its activities as: "The charities main aim is the promotion of the Christian Gospel both in the UK and abroad."[3]

Register classifications: General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Religious Activities.[3]

Areas of operation recorded on the register: Derbyshire, Derby City, Israel, Nepal.[3]

Trustees

Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]

Trustees of Emmanuel Community Church Duffield (register, October 2026)
Trustee Appointed Chair Other trusteeships
Chris Greaves not recorded Emmanuel Overseas Projects (517104)
Steve Taylor not recorded —
David Ellis 2023-11-19 —

Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)

Trustees shown in archived register pages
Capture date Trustees listed Source
2021-07-04 John George Jameson; Aaron Walker (chair) (from 01 September 2016); Chris Greaves – also trustee of Emmanuel Overseas Projects; Claire Booth (from 09 October 2014); Steve Taylor [4]

Chris Greaves is also a register trustee of Emmanuel Overseas Projects (517104).[3]

Finances

Income and expenditure, five most recent reported years
Financial year end Income Expenditure
2020-12-31 £70,408 £69,168
2021-12-31 £62,528 £69,098
2022-12-31 £64,287 £64,312
2023-12-31 £54,499 £63,683
2024-12-31 £46,578 £32,019

Source: register annual-return history.[3]

Archived accounts

Accounts no longer on the live register were found in the UK Government Web Archive:

  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2015[5]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2016[6]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2017[7]
  • Accounts for the year ended 31/12/2018[8]

Funding in Israel

  • No spending in Israel is identified; the 2024 accounts do not mention Israel.[2]

Israeli partners

No Israeli partner is named. The register lists Israel and Nepal among the charity's areas of operation.[3]

Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF

Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.

Evidence of activity beyond the 1949 armistice line
Finding Confidence
No place in Israel is named.[2] Not established

Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]

Controversies and regulatory action

  • No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[9] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[10][11][12][13] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[14]
  • Inconsistent figures. The 2023 receipts total is printed as £54,409 in the total box against £54,499 elsewhere, and the cash at the end of the previous year is given as £10,598 in one column and £40,598 in another (scanned accounts read by OCR).[2]

Other registers and records

Scotland and Northern Ireland

No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[15] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[16]

The Gazette

Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[17]

Grants recorded by 360Giving

No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[18]

Sanctions screening

The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[19]

Land and property

Emmanuel Christian Centre, Duffield (2009), the church building valued at £688,222 in the charity's 2024 accounts

The register records that the charity owns and/or leases land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[20] Candidate titles and addresses (CCOD dataset and register/accounts data):[21]

  • Church building ("Church Buiding" [sic]) carried at £688,222; the charity's principal address is the Emmanuel Christian Centre, Duffield DE56 – Accounts (source: [2])

Parliament

Hansard exact-phrase searches for "Emmanuel Community Church Duffield" returned 0 contributions in total.[22]

Web archive

  • emmanuelduffield.org: 18 yearly captures, first 2003-03-21, last 2023-01-28.[23]

The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Charity reporting is up to date (on time)" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]

External links

Notes

  1. ↑ Charity Commission, Emmanuel Community Church Duffield (1122938): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 Charity Commission, accounts and annual returns (1122938) Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 (scanned document; text read by OCR, so some printed digits are unclear; "PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
  3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1122938, full print (capture of 20210704) UK Government Web Archive.
  5. ↑ Emmanuel Community Church Duffield accounts, year ended 2015-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  6. ↑ Emmanuel Community Church Duffield accounts, year ended 2016-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  7. ↑ Emmanuel Community Church Duffield accounts, year ended 2017-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  8. ↑ Emmanuel Community Church Duffield accounts, year ended 2018-12-31 UK Government Web Archive (capture of 20200106).
  9. ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-23 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
  10. ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
  12. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
  13. ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
  14. ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
  15. ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-23 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
  16. ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-23 charity names returned zero results).
  17. ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Emmanuel Community Church Duffield' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
  18. ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1122938 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
  19. ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-23 screening covered 249 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Company Limited" in the name of a corporate formation agent, and ".com") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
  20. ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
  21. ↑ HM Land Registry, UK companies that own property in England and Wales (CCOD) and Overseas companies that own property in England and Wales (OCOD) full extracts, October 2026 release, matched on the company numbers of the charitable companies in this batch and searched for distinctive charity-name keywords; no title registers were purchased.
  22. ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Emmanuel Community Church Duffield" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).
  23. ↑ Internet Archive CDX index for emmanuelduffield.org Wayback Machine, queried 16 October 2026.
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