BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE

Registered charity 1102280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q98687032

Delivering religious education and training to those preparing for Ministry (generally but not exclusively in the Baptist denomination), to others furthering their theological education and to those preparing for service in Children, Families and Youth Ministry (both Christian and secular based).Providing a Christian resource centre for study and development.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF PERSONS (PARTICULARLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THOSE PROFESSING THEMSELVES TO BE BAPTISTS) TO ENABLE THEM TO EXERCISE THEIR GIFTS WITH THE GREATER USEFULNESS IN THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY.

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: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bristol, City of, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net movement in funds of a loss of £73,134 for the year ended 30 June 2025, following an operating loss before investment gains. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £1,130,808, which is slightly below the stated policy target of £1.2m, though the trustees consider this shortfall not to require specific action.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 4 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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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 £725k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~40.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (47% 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: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (25/10/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (26/11/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dorette Morgan
• Graham John Lewis · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rachel Elizabeth Mary Stone
• Rev Andrew Douglas Caldwell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Kenneth Leonard Benjamin
• Rev Matthew George Bradley
• Rev Michael James Peat · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Peter John Morden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Peter Thomas Henderson Hatton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Tania Jane Vaughan
• TIMOTHY JOHN WALKER · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Graham John Lewis — trustee here and at TYNDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, BRISTOL

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 TRINITY COLLEGE BRISTOL LIMITED.

• TRINITY COLLEGE BRISTOL LIMITED income £3.1m
• BRISTOL CHINESE BAPTIST CHURCH income £26k
• BRISTOL CATHEDRAL income £2.3m
• BILSTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £84k
• COLEG Y BEDYDDWYR CAERDYDD / CARDIFF BAPTIST COLLEGE income £654k
• BRISTOL SCHOOLS CONNECTION income £40k

Side by side with its peers

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