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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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
• Nosayaba Sandra Idehen
• Pastor Mericia Atasha Hedman
• Rev Elaine Youngman
• Rev Philip Edward Barnard · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sharon Green

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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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 £1.0m
• Grace Baptist Association income £424k
• SOUTH EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £656k
• THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £11.1m
• GODMANCHESTER BAPTIST CHURCH income £527k
• TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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