HODDESDON BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1131809 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HBC

The advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination. The Trust may also advance education and carry out other charitable purposes in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world.

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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Broxbourne, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that receipts satisfactorily covered normal expenses, resulting in a net surplus for the year. However, free reserves of £152,056 are below the trustees' stated policy target of £155,000, which is intended to cover at least one year's expenses. The charity holds significant investment assets valued at £1,237,974 to support future property expenditure.

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 handling
• 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Edward Harry Delasalle
• KATHRYN PATRICIA EDMONDS
• Keith Raymond Woollgar
• Rev David Andrew Gooderidge
• SIMON NEAL PATEMAN

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire

Income and spending

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