THE LONDON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1091160 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LBA, LONDON BAPTISTS

The London Baptist Association seeks to fulfil its purpose through resourcing, supporting and encouraging the life and mission of its member churches.

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Tower Hamlets, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a positive movement in funds of £1,400,098 for the year ended 31 December 2025, driven by investment gains and donations. Per the trustees' report, free reserves were £5,721,259, which the directors consider adequate against their policy to maintain three to six months of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin 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.

• 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
• Investment
• 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

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 04325272

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Phil Barnard — Regional Team Leader (source)
• Nigel Redford — Company Secretary (source)
• Elaine Youngman — Director (source)
• Jacky McLeod — Director (source)
• Marilyn Ross — Director (source)
• Mike Thornton — Moderator (source)
• Nestor Fernandez — Director (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.

• GREEN, Sharon Angela, Pastor — director, appointed 28/01/2026on trustee list
• HEDMAN, Mericia Atasha — director, appointed 08/11/2025on trustee list
• YOUNGMAN, Elaine, Reverend — director, appointed 08/11/2025on trustee list
• MCLEOD, Jacqueline, Dr — director, appointed 09/11/2024on trustee list
• KINCAID, Norman Philip — director, appointed 09/11/2024on trustee list
• ROSS, Marilyn — director, appointed 09/11/2024on trustee list
• NOBLE, Jade Yollander — director, appointed 21/12/2023on trustee list
• THORNTON, Michael Edward Ian, Reverend — director, appointed 21/12/2023on trustee list
• VIZCAYA, Nestor Jose Fernandez, Rev — director, appointed 08/10/2022on trustee list
• IDEHEN, Nosayaba Sandra — director, appointed 03/03/2021on trustee list
• BARNARD, Philip Edward, Reverend — director, appointed 20/06/2016on trustee list
• REDFORD, Nigel Thomas, Mr. — secretary, appointed 21/07/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (3 freehold); recorded price paid £3.2m. 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 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~38.8 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 (46% 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: 3.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev MICHAEL THORNTONchair
• Dr Jacqueline McLeod · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jade Noble · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marilyn Ross
• Nestor Jose Fernandez Vizcaya · trustee of 1 other charity
• Norman Philip Kincaid · trustee of 1 other charity
• Pastor Mericia Atasha Hedman
• Rev Elaine Youngman
• Rev Isabella Assis de Souza
• Rev Philip Edward Barnard · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE LONDON BAPTIST PROPERTY BOARD LIMITED.

• THE LONDON BAPTIST PROPERTY BOARD LIMITED income £907k
• LONDON BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION income £429k
• OLD BAPTIST UNION income £27k
• LONDON BAPTIST CHURCH income £186k
• LONDON BIBLE CHURCH income £104k
• TESTWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH income £581k

Side by side with its peers

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