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BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES

Registered charity 1067316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCH, BCC, CHINEHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH, NORTH BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCH, SOUTH BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCH, TADLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH

Running and provisioning 4 local churches, engaging with and serving local communities in various ways, helping to build up similar churches locally, nationally and overseas through established relational links.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income
£1.0m
Latest spending
£1.0m
Registered
1998
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £41,722 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,938,333 to £1,896,611. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, noting that reserves remain well within the stated policy target of three to four months of expenditure. The charity holds significant cash balances and intends to use surplus funds for future building projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: three to four months of expenditure (held: £1.8m)
“The reserves policy for Basingstoke Community Churches is to aim to hold three to four months surplus to cover expenditure (equivalent to £250,000 to £300,000) as cash reserves” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Gifts and donations made to The Safe, Basingstoke Ltd, a charity of which Trustee Philip Wraight is a Trustee.
“Philip Wraight is a Trustee of The Safe, Basingstoke Ltd to which gifts and donations were made in the year (see Note 7) of £1,942.” — page 21
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income
£1.0m
Total spending
£1.0m
Cost of raising funds
£781
Reserves (reported)
£1.8m
Employees
18

Reported reserves equal ~20.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (93% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/03/2025£1.0m£1.0m
31/03/2024£889k£956k
31/03/2023£836k£983k
31/03/2022£829k£805k
31/03/2021£905k£803k

Common questions

Is BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £41,722 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £1,938,333 to £1,896,611. The trustees consider the financial position satisfactory, noting that reserves remain well within the stated policy target of three to four months of expenditure. The charity holds significant cash balances and intends to use surplus funds for future building projects. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
INCORPORATED BOURNEMOUTH FREE CHURCH COUNCIL1£59k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SOUTH NORMANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH.

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES£1.0m—0above—no doubt
SOUTH NORMANTON COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025£166k—0unclear—noted
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BEXHILL FY2024£300k—0unclear—no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ASHBURTON WITH BUCKLAND-IN-THE-MOOR AND BICKINGTON FY2025£184k—0below—no doubt
CHRISTCHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025£410k—0unclear—no doubt
STONELEIGH BAPTIST CHURCH FY2024£197k—0above—no doubt

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