Christian Science Society, Exeter

Registered charity 1040318 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH EXETER, FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, EXETER

Religious activitiesProvides Church Services and Sunday SchoolOperates a Christian Science Reading RoomMakes occasional grants to Christian Science organisations

Objects

THE PURPOSE OF THIS CHURCH IS TO BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH AS SET FORTH IN THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETED SPIRITUALLY IN "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES" BY MARY BAKER EDDY, THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED, IN PRACTICE EXETER

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: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £103,593, derived from a general fund balance. The trustees consider these funds, along with investments, sufficient to meet future planned activities. The charity operates on a receipts and payments basis with no paid employees or trustee remuneration.

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
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

• Dr Jonathan Barry
• James Jeremy Brown

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

Operates in: Devon

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, OXTED.

• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, OXTED income £25k
• Christian Science Society, Windermere income £51k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SEVENOAKS income £51k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON income £51k
• JOINT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM UK income £140k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE income £59k

Side by side with its peers

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