St Annes Limehouse

What St Annes Limehouse does

St Annes Limehouse is a Church of England parish church operating as a registered UK charity (number 1164249) from Three Colt Street, London E14 8HH in the Limehouse area of East London. Its core activity is religious worship and community ministry: two Sunday services (10.30am and 6pm), mid-week Bible study groups distributed across the East End, and pastoral ceremonies including baptisms, weddings, and funerals. The congregation is described as a genuinely mixed East End community, and the church is led by Rector Richard Bray with a small team (headcount reported at 6).

The underlying technology footprint is intentionally modest: a content website (stanneslimehouse.org) hosting sermon archives and event information, YouTube-based live streaming for remote attendance, and downloadable/streaming audio sermons functioning as a podcast. There is no proprietary platform, no mobile application, and no API integrations; digital capability is essentially a content distribution layer atop commodity web and social channels (YouTube, Facebook, X/Twitter).

The revenue model combines voluntary congregational giving (tithes and offerings), professional fees for life-cycle ceremonies, and a commercial building hire stream that rents the crypt and main nave to orchestras, film productions, and event organizers. Go-to-market is community-led: in-person services, streaming for non-attenders, digital content for ongoing engagement, and partnerships with local schools, orchestras, and homelessness charities (GrowTH, London Gospel Partnership, Proclamation Trust, Stepney Greencoat School, Docklands Sinfonia, ELLSO) plus international mission links to Brussels and Ghana.

Name

St Annes Limehouse

Legal name

St Anne's Church

Website

https://stanneslimehouse.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

St Annes Limehouse is a Church of England parish church in East London (registered charity 1164249) providing Sunday services, mid-week groups, baptisms, weddings, funerals, sermon podcasts, and building hire to the local community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Religious Services

NAICS

Religious Organizations (8131)

akta.pro primary industry

Places of Worship & Religious Facilities Operations (Cemeteries, Retreat Centers, Pilgrimage Sites) (BPAGAJAL)

Keywords

• Religious services
• Church worship
• Community outreach
• Ceremony services
• Biblical teaching

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Tithes and Offerings: Voluntary donations from congregation members during services
2. Building Hire: Crypt and main church building available for hire for filming, orchestras, children's parties and other events. Includes toilet, kitchen facilities and car park.
3. Life Events Services: Fees for baptisms, weddings, and funerals ceremonies

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

St Anne's Limehouse is a Church of England parish church that delivers weekly Sunday worship services (10.30am and 6pm), life-cycle ceremonies (baptisms, weddings, funerals), mid-week community groups across the East End, and downloadable audio sermons. It also rents its crypt and main building for filming, orchestras, children's parties, and other events.

Product overview

St Anne's Limehouse is a Church of England parish church offering a portfolio of spiritual and community services. The core offerings include Sunday worship services (10.30am and 6pm) with live streaming capability, life-cycle ceremonies (baptisms, weddings, funerals), mid-week groups across the East End, and audio sermon podcasts. The church also offers its building spaces for hire to the community. The portfolio is unified around the church's mission of straightforward Bible teaching and community engagement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Sunday Worship Services

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GrowTHcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrowTH is a Christian response to homelessness in Tower Hamlets. St Anne's hosts an emergency night shelter on Sunday evenings through the winter. This addresses immediate needs of homeless individuals in the local community.
• London Gospel PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSt Anne's is part of a network of churches working together to train leaders, strengthen and plant churches, and advance the gospel. This provides access to broader Christian resources and collaboration.
• The Proclamation TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Proclamation Trust serves the local church by promoting the work of biblical expository preaching in the UK and further afield through training courses. Supports St Anne's teaching ministry.
• Stepney Greencoat SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChurch of England primary school with clear Christian ethos. St Anne's has connection to this local educational institution.
• Docklands SinfoniaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerYoung and pioneering orchestra that has become a major cultural force in the Docklands area. St Anne's serves as their home base.
• East London Late Starters Orchestra (ELLSO)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAmateur symphony orchestra for adult late starters also based at St Anne's, providing accessible music education opportunities.
• Emmanuel EtterbeekminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerChurch planted in 2016 in Brussels from Eglise Evangelique Protestant de Bruxelles Woluwe. St Anne's supports this church in reaching out with the gospel and growing disciples for Jesus.
• Redeemer City Church, GhanaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRecently planted church in Accra, Ghana's capital city. St Anne's is establishing a mission partnership hoping to support and learn from one another in different cultural contexts.
• Portia Yiadem, Relite Africa, GhanaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerThrough Crosslinks, St Anne's supports Portia Yiadem in her ministry with Relite in Accra. Her role includes 1-2-1s with female students, teaching bible handling skills and training students for evangelism.

Scale indicators1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB): HTB is a large Anglican church in central London and the origin of the Alpha Course. It is comparable as a Church of England parish that emphasises Bible teaching, runs life-event services, and operates extensive mid-week community groups, but operates at substantially greater scale and reach than St Anne's Limehouse.

Direct peers

• All Souls Langham Place: All Souls is an evangelical Anglican church in central London known for Bible teaching, a professional congregation, and active cultural engagement in central London. It is comparable to St Anne's as an evangelical Church of England parish with similar preaching orientation and community programming.
• St Mary's Ealing: St Mary's Ealing is a Church of England parish in West London with a focus on Bible teaching, life-event services, and mid-week community groups. It is comparable as a mid-sized Anglican parish church with a similar portfolio of services and community engagement.
• St Helen's Bishopsgate: St Helen's is a Church of England parish church in the City of London with a strong emphasis on expository Bible preaching, a paid staff team, an extensive sermon archive, and a professional congregation. It is the closest direct peer to St Anne's in terms of preaching style, teaching focus, and digital content distribution.

Others

• GrowTH (Tower Hamlets homelessness partnership): GrowTH is a Christian homelessness response in Tower Hamlets that uses St Anne's as a Sunday-night winter shelter host. It is comparable as a strategic social-outreach partner whose success directly affects St Anne's community impact and grant eligibility.
• Docklands Sinfonia: Docklands Sinfonia is a young orchestra based at St Anne's Limehouse. It is comparable not as a competitor but as an ecosystem tenant whose presence drives building-hire revenue and shapes the church's cultural identity in East London.
• The Proclamation Trust: The Proclamation Trust promotes expository Bible preaching across the UK and supports St Anne's teaching ministry. It is comparable as a strategic training-and-content partner that reinforces St Anne's distinctive preaching orientation.
• London Gospel Partnership: London Gospel Partnership is a network of churches working together to train leaders, strengthen and plant churches, and advance the gospel in London. It is comparable as a network partner that supports St Anne's leadership development and church-planting activity.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/StAnneLimehouse
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@StAnnesLimehouse/streams
• Facebookfacebook.com/St-Annes-Church-Limehouse-1610873125810504
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/st-annes-limehouse

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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