BRISTOL ECCLESIASTICAL CHARITY

Registered charity 1058853 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRISTOL ARCHDEACONRY CHARITIES, BRISTOL ARCHDEACONRY CHARITY

The objects of the charity are to further the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in the area of benefit - the Archdeaconry of Bristol and the surrounding area including the Deanery of Kingswood in South Gloucestershire, and the Benefice of Marshfield with Cold Ashton and Tormarton with West Littleton.

Objects

FURTHERING THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN THE ARCHDEACONRY OF BRISTOL

Area of benefit: THE ARCHDEACONRY OF BRISTOL

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit before investment gains of £147,881, which was offset by net investment gains of £863,600 to produce a net income of £715,719. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £1,184,749, which is below the stated policy target of maintaining reserves of not less than two years' costs of grant-making activities. The charity is preparing its accounts on a going concern basis with no identified material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "below" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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

• ANDREW STREET · trustee of 11 other charities
• Aaron Andre James
• Benjamin Hugh Silvey
• Canon Charles Water Edward Ralph Buchan
• Caroline Jowett-Ive · trustee of 1 other charity
• David John Maggs
• David Miles Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Brutus Green
• The Venerable Rebecca Ann Waring · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRISTOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED.

• THE BRISTOL DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE LIMITED income £10.2m
• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £387k
• BRISTOL BAPTIST FUND income £65k
• BICESTER CHRISTIAN ACTION LIMITED income £210k
• BRISTOL CATHEDRAL income £2.3m

Side by side with its peers

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