ROCHESTER BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1130518 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

- providing regular public worship open to all- teaching Christianity through sermons, small groups and courses- providing youth groups with a Christian ethos- promoting the whole mission of the church through activities for senior citizens, parents & toddlers and other groups- pastoral work including visiting the sick and bereaved- supporting mission and other Christian charities.

Objects

(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OFFAITH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN ROCHESTER AND THE SURROUNDINGNEIGHBOURHOOD; AND(2) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL, IN THE OPINION OF THE MANAGINGTRUSTEES FURTHER THE WORK OF THE CHURCH.

Area of benefit: ROCHESTER

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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Registered contact address: Medway, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity operated at a deficit of £19,872 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in total reserves of £181,704. Per the trustees' report, the amount available for unrestricted use was £143,797, which exceeds the stated policy target of covering an average three months' costs. The Independent Examiner confirmed that no material matters were found that would cause concern regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

Trustees · trustee networks

• Christina Rampota · trustee of 1 other charity
• Joanna Selina Rodrigues · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Andrew Peters · trustee of 1 other charity
• Judith Anne Pennington · trustee of 1 other charity
• Luciano Marco Domenico Pelosi · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm Francis Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• Malcolm George Peake · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nicholas Andrew Sutch · trustee of 1 other charity
• Richard Lewis Hasemore · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Medway

Income and spending

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