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.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

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.

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

Registered contact address: Basingstoke and Deane, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

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

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 03476768 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Phil Norris — Team leader (source)

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.

• WAKE, Joy Audrey — director, appointed 17/10/2024on trustee list
• BUTLER, David Ian — director, appointed 23/04/2022on trustee list
• BASTIN, Gary Mark — director, appointed 11/04/2019on trustee list
• GEORGE, Jonathan Lloyd — director, appointed 11/04/2019on trustee list
• NASH, Mark Scott — secretary, appointed 24/01/2019

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)

Reported reserves equal ~20.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Andrew Richard Taylorchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Ian Butler · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gary Mark Bastin
• Jonathan Lloyd George
• Joy Audrey Wake

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BASINGSTOKE.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BASINGSTOKE income £1.8m
• KING'S CHURCH BASINGSTOKE income £79k
• CHURCHES CONSERVATION income £408k
• KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £5.3m
• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k
• CRAWLEY COMMUNITY CHURCH income £224k

Side by side with its peers

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