THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BASINGSTOKE

Registered charity 1133775 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BASINGSTOKE PCC

Regular public worship open to allThe provision of sacred space for personal prayer and contemplationPastoral work, including visiting the sick and the bereavedTeaching of Christianity through sermons, courses and small groupsTaking of religious assemblies in schoolsSupporting other charities in the UK and overseas

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

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 · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £150,654 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a reduction of net assets to £3,793,825. The trustees maintain a reserves policy to hold three months of budgeted expenditure in central funds, against which unrestricted reserves stood at £3,770,495. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by MC Audit Limited. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Libby Etherington — Associate Minister (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alfie William Wells
• Andrew David McCormick
• Celia Faith Saunders
• Charles Applegate · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elaine Susan Coombs
• Eleanor Louise Pavey
• Fehintola Moradeun Otudeko
• Ghislaine Mary Fletcher
• Graham Charles Essex
• Hazel Christine Marchment
• Henry William St John Barber
• Jason Peter York
• John Christopher Davies
• Jonathan Leonard Tate
• Keith Bastin
• Lucy Claire Tate
• Lucy Katherine Colman
• Michael John Edens
• Paul Lane
• Phillip James Gibson
• Rev Daniel James Gardner
• Rev Elizabeth Anne Etherington
• Rev John Hudson · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Nicola Poppy May Ford
• STEPHEN LEACH
• SUE IRVINE
• Sathya Brunda Pradeep Johnson
• Susan Lynda Roux
• Susanne Stephanie Goodwin

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

Operates in: Hampshire

Income and spending

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