BAPTIST HOUSING TRUST

Registered charity 1031620 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BHT

Provides grants for amenities to housing schemes belonging to English Churches Housing Group or for Baptist ministers or missionaries and their widows or widowers living in residential accommodation provided by a charitable organisation connected with the Baptist Union of Great Britain or with BMS World Mission

Objects

FOR THE RELIEF OF PERSONS IN NEED BY SUPPORTING AND FUNDING THE CHARITABLE WORK OF ENGLISH CHURCHES HOUSING GROUP LTD.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: North Hertfordshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity holds total funds of £1,203,728, comprising unrestricted funds of £1,108,858 and restricted income funds of £94,870. The accounts state that the reserves policy is to maintain cash balances equal to at least six months of unrestricted expenditure, and the current unrestricted fund balance significantly exceeds this threshold. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £11,245 for the year, driven primarily by investment income of £31,934 and gains on investment assets of £66,445.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REVD DR MICHAEL EDWARD IAN THORNTONchair
• JEAN HARRISON
• Norman Philip Kincaid · trustee of 1 other charity
• REVD PAUL WILLIAM MARTIN
• Rev Graham Clarke · trustee of 1 other charity

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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• THE EAST MIDLAND BAPTIST TRUST COMPANY LIMITED income £139k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.