TAUNTON BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1132949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Normal activities of a Christian Church, including services of worship, activities for different age ranges including children, youth, men, women. Activities for the study of the Christian faith. Activities for the benefit of the community including providing services in care homes, support to schools, and a variety of inter-church activities for the community.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The provided document is a narrative report for the year ending 30th April 2025 and does not contain financial statements, balance sheets, or income and expenditure accounts. Consequently, no data regarding reserves, income, expenditure, or financial health metrics is available for analysis.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Richard Matchamchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Barbara Ann Wager · trustee of 1 other charity
• David Jonathan fletcher · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Janet Eveline Gillett · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mike Wager
• Rev Steven James Reed · trustee of 1 other charity
• WILLIAM JOHN VENN · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Somerset

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).