BARNABAS FELLOWSHIP OF CHURCHES TRUST

Registered charity 1071300 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BARNABAS · also registered in Scotland as SC051016 (OSCR)

Barnabas Fellowship of Churches offers support to small or struggling churches. It provides support and encouragement to Church leaders

Objects

The objects of the Trust are – (a) To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the Statement of Beliefs appearing in the Schedule hereto in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Trustees may from time to time think fit (b) To relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused thereby in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Trustees may from time to time think fit: (c) To promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in such parts of the United Kingdom or the world as the Trustees may from time to time think fit Throughout this trust deed ‘charitable’ means charitable in accordance with the law of England and Wales provided that it will not include any purpose which is not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.For the avoidance of doubt, the system of law governing the constitution of the charity is the law of England and Wales.

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 · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Reading, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net expenditure of £6,533 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £94,111 to £87,578. The trustees state that current and future sources of funding are adequate to meet the charity's needs on a going concern basis. No reserves policy target was stated in the accounts.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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
• 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.

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 31/12/2021 (received 21/12/2022, 51 days after the 31/10/2022 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

• CAMERON CRAWFORD
• GARETH CHARLES OWEN
• Gary Victor Ashe
• Mark Stephen Hirst

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · France · Israel · Leicestershire · Northern Ireland · Nottinghamshire · Plymouth City · Reading · Somerset · Surrey · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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 THE BARNABAS (OUTREACH) TRUST.

• THE BARNABAS (OUTREACH) TRUST income £38k
• BARNABAS COMMUNITY CHURCH income £539k
• THE BARNABAS CHARITABLE TRUST income £12k
• THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST income £2.4m
• THE FELLOWSHIP TRUST income £107k
• BASINGSTOKE COMMUNITY CHURCHES income £1.0m

Side by side with its peers

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