GREAT BARTON FREE CHURCH

Registered charity 1151616 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FREEDOM CHURCH, GBFC

The Church is an independent evangelical church. Church services are inter-denominational; open to all who wish to attend irrespective of faith.Mission work is local and international and comprises evangelical, training, relief and aid programmes.Outreach includes pastoral care, a debt relief centre, wellbeing groups, a community cafe, youth and toddlers groups and sharing of church resources.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted net current assets totaled £50,226 at the end of the year, representing approximately two months of cover against foreseeable expenditure. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern with sufficient resources to continue operating. Total incoming resources increased to £181,279, largely driven by a significant rise in grant income.

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 08364261

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• BULLEN, Johnnie Darren — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Steven Graham — director, appointed 08/09/2025on trustee list
• COLLINS, Shaun — director, appointed 01/08/2021on trustee list
• LONG, Michael Steven — director, appointed 01/08/2021on trustee list
• POTTER, Linsey Ruth Martin — director, appointed 30/11/2017on trustee list
• ROLLETT, Lindsay Rae — director, appointed 30/11/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/04/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Johnnie Darren Bullen
• Lindsay Rollett
• Linsey Potter
• Michael Steven Long
• Shaun Collins
• Steven Graham Campbell

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

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