NAVAL & MILITARY BIBLE SOCIETY LTD

Registered charity 1102593 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NAVAL MILITARY & AIR FORCE BIBLE SOCIETY

The Society distributes copies of the Bible, New Testaments and Psalms and illustrative material to the United Kingdom armed forces personnel and their associates, to the forces of the Commonwealth and other nations, all merchant seafarers, United Kingdom police, fire and rescue services and others.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY DISTRIBUTING, EITHER FREE OF CHARGE OR BY SALE, COPIES OF THE BIBLE, NEW TESTAMENT AND PSALMS AND ILLUSTRATIVE MATERIAL TO UNITED KINGDOM ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL AND THEIR ASSOCIATES, TO THE FORCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND OTHER NATIONS, ALL MERCHANT SEAFARERS, UNITED KINGDOM POLICE, FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES AND OTHERS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED. IN PRACTICE WORLDWIDE

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 total funds carried forward were £28,590, which is above the stated reserves policy target of £20,000. The charity reported a net expenditure deficit of £9,845 for the year, with total incoming resources of £245,611 and total expenditure of £255,456. The trustees confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2024) to "above" (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
• Campaigns and political activity 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

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• COLONEL John William Lewis · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Cashmore
• Christopher Raymond Huckstep
• REV Karen Louise Bassett
• Raphael Duckett
• Rev JAMES PITKIN
• Rev Toby Humphreys
• STUART ROSS RIVERS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Australia · Belgium · Brazil · Cameroon · Canada · Cape Verde · Central African Republic · Chad · Congo (Democratic Republic) · Cyprus · Denmark · Dhekelia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIBLES FOR CHILDREN.

• BIBLES FOR CHILDREN income £146k
• THE BIBLE NETWORK income £731k
• BIBLICAL FRAMEWORKS income £37k
• BSL BIBLE TRANSLATION PROJECT income £43k
• THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY income £26.2m
• THE EVANGELICAL LIBRARY income £43k

Side by side with its peers

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