INSTITUTE FOR BIBLE TRANSLATION

Registered charity 1091358 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the Christian faith by supporting the translation and printing of the Bible for the non-Slavic peoples of Russia and CIS.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IN PARTICULAR BY THE TRANSLATION AND PUBLICATION OF THE BIBLE AND OTHER RELIGIOUS LITERATURE IN LANGUAGES OF NON- SLAVIC PEOPLES LIVING IN RUSSIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES (CIS).

Area of benefit: RUSSIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £4,475 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in unrestricted reserves of £6,644. The trustees report that this decline in income was due to a significant change in charity trustees but express confidence that income will recover strongly in the coming year. The charity maintains a stated reserves policy target of £1,500 to ensure continued operation should income or expenditure vary adversely.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Anton Ponomarev
• Christopher Bennett
• Colin Philip Cleaver
• Dr Bronwen Cleaver
• Philip Miller Atholl Laing
• Rev TIMOTHY JOHN HERBERT · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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