EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1089795 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

An Association of Baptist Church in East Anglia

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION ESPECIALLY BY THE MEANS OF AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION AS SET OUT FOR THE TIME BEING IN THE DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLE OF THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN.

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

Registered contact address: Basildon, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £30,077 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in net assets. The trustees acknowledge that using reserves to cover ongoing shortfalls has significant implications for future activities, though they expect structural changes in the Baptist Union in 2027 to allow for long-term sustainable planning.

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 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £395k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/07/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/06/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Louise Alice Webberchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Jessica West
• Paul John David Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Adrian Mark Ward
• Rev David Roberts Mayne · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Gordon Edward Hindmarch
• Rev Sandra Lorraine Crawford
• Richard Alexis Lucien Lewis
• Segun Adeyemi Fatumo
• Valerie June Khambatta

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 SOUTH EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.

• SOUTH EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £458k
• EAST MIDLAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £581k
• WEST OF ENGLAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £402k
• CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £586k
• BECKENHAM BAPTIST CHURCH income £135k
• EASTHAMPSTEAD BAPTIST CHURCH income £327k

Side by side with its peers

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