BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST

Registered charity 1085602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

EDUCATION/TRAININGRELIEF OF POVERTYRELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES

Objects

3.1 TO ADVANCE CHRISTIANITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF CLAUSE 10 OF THIS MEMORANDUM IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND ELSEWHERE3.2 TO RELIEVE THOSE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OR WHO ARE AGED OR SICK3.3 TO PROMOTE OR PROVIDE EDUCATION (INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING).

Area of benefit: IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET AND ELSEWHERE.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free/unrestricted reserves were £376,520, which is significantly above the stated policy target of £150,000. The charity reported a net income increase of £143,438, driven by a 9% increase in trading turnover that offset a 7% decrease in donations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Bishop Fleming Audit Limited. 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04122782

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Bath Christian Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Ruth Horsfall — Senior 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.

• KINNEAR, Craig — director, appointed 10/12/2024not on trustee list
• HAMER, Bob — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• JACOBS, Robert Michael — director, appointed 07/12/2020on trustee list
• DURRANT, Simon James — director, appointed 08/12/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (66% 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: 58.9% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• BOB HAMER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Craig Kinnear Chair
• ROBERT MICHAEL JACOBS
• RUTH ELIZABETH MARTIN · trustee of 1 other charity
• SIMON JAMES DURRANT

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH.

• TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH income £1.7m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BATH ST. BARTHOLOMEW income £449k
• THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE income £3.8m
• REIGATE BAPTIST CHURCH TRUST income £651k
• David and Jeannie Chambers Charity for Mitcham Lane Baptist Church Charitable Incorporated Organisation income £0
• THE CELESTIAL CHURCH OF CHRIST SALVATION ARK PARISH income £242k

Side by side with its peers

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