MINEHEAD BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1130521 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MBC

As well as Sunday services, midweek activities include daily prayers, life groups, Girls' Brigade, youth group, a drop-in cafe, monthly communion and lunch, a monthly men's breakfast and dance in worship. The Minehead Hope Centre and AA use our premises. We have a community ministry at the Hub in Alcombe with Soft Play and a weekly toddler group. Please see our website for further details.

Objects

The principal purpose of the Church is the advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination. The Church may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and/or other parts of the world.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

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 Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £81,290 significantly exceed the charity's stated policy target of £30,000. The charity reported a small surplus for the year, having reduced an anticipated deficit through increased giving and specific donations for staff support.

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 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/05/2017) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Paul Christopher McCabechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Catherine Brown
• Jan Hazell-Jackson
• Luke David Orpin
• Patricia Crispin
• Rev Thomas Pratt

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

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