BULGARIAN SUPPORT FUND

Registered charity 1054734 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity makes grants to the Christian Evangelical Baptist Church in Varna, Bulgaria, to assist them in providing meals for the poor & elderly, church services, children's & young people's work, cultural events, lectures, classes and health clinics. Through the church, the charity also supports homes for children with special needs.

Objects

1) FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF HEALTH AMONG THE CHILDREN OF BULGARIA INCLUDING BUT WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO ORPHANAGES 2) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY ESTABLISHING AND MAINTAINING A CHURCH

Area of benefit: BULGARIA

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: St Albans, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased by £2,283 to a year-end balance of £92,151, following total receipts of £32,343 and grants paid of £30,000. The trustees report that they have taken necessary steps to mitigate identified risks and retain funds on deposit to meet future needs. No material uncertainties or going concern issues are disclosed in the filing.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 2 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/04/2023 (received 22/05/2024, 83 days after the 29/02/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MR A BRALANT
• MR B GRIFFITHS · trustee of 2 other charities
• MRS P S LAWSON

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

Operates in: Bulgaria

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BULGARIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• BULGARIAN FELLOWSHIP income £52k
• LIGHT FOR BULGARIA LIMITED income £46k
• ANGELS FOR BULGARIA income £84k
• KIDS CARE CHARITY income £8k
• BULGARIAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH "SPRING OF LIFE" income £45k
• BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH (EAST HANNINGFIELD) income £25k

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