BRISTOL BAPTIST FUND

Registered charity 1125753 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

1. In aid of the stipends of pastors, clerical or lay, of Baptist chapels within the counties of Gloucester, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset or Wiltshire;2. In aid of poor students for the Baptist ministry, at Bristol Baptist College or elsewhere;3. Towards the support of Bristol Baptist College and its library.

Objects

IN MAKING GRANTS TO:A. WEST OF ENGLAND BAPTIST ASSOCIATION OF LITTLE STOKE BAPTIST CHURCH BRISTOL BS34 6JW IS A REGISTERED CHARITY REGISTERED WITH CHARITY NUMBER 1092443B. SOUTH WEST BAPTIST ASSOCIATION OF WONFORD BAPTIST CHAPEL EXETER EX2 5DL IS A REGISTERED CHARITY REGISTERED WITH CHARITY NUMBER 1124938.C. BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE OF THE PROMENADE, CLIFTON DOWN, BRISTOL, BS8

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · 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 unrestricted reserves stood at £1,097,536, while the charity incurred a net outgoing of £87,382 due to grants exceeding investment income. The trustees note that the combination of income and capital growth is considered sufficient to continue activities for the foreseeable future, despite drawing down capital to maintain grant levels.

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 3 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Kathryn Ann Morganchair
• COLIN INNES BEWS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Andrew Douglas Caldwell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Carl Smethurst · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Peter John Morden · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Peter Thomas Henderson Hatton · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rhiannon Hamblin

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.

• THE BRISTOL BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION income £511k
• BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE income £659k
• KENSINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £387k
• BRISTOL VINEYARD income £248k
• KING'S BAPTIST CHURCH income £49k
• BRETTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £270k

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