BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH GORSEINON

Registered charity 1154845 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Worship services twice each Sunday, plus a monthly midweek service. Meetings for youth and younger children each week in term time. Prayer meeting/Bible study every week. Ad hoc participation in local community activities e.g Christmas Lantern Parade. Engagement with local schools, e.g. holding assemblies and providing facilities for Christmas Carol Services.

Objects

THE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH SHALL BE:-(1)THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN GORSEINON AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND(2)SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS SHALL, IN THE OPINION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH IN A CHURCH MEETING, FURTHER THE WORK OF THE CHURCH.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swansea, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Latest income

£76k

Latest spending

£62k

Registered

2013

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £134,131.88 as of 31 December 2025, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy of holding a minimum of six months' expenditure. The charity received total incoming resources of £76,456.56 and incurred total payments of £61,784.93, resulting in a net surplus for the period.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of expenditure (held: £134k)

“We intend to keep a minimum of 6 months expenditure as a reserve.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

KEITH JOHN VINE
MARTYN PHILIP KEANE
Matthew David Lee
Samuel Matthew Reeve BSc

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

Operates in: City Of Swansea

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£76k	£62k
31/12/2024	£76k	£77k
31/12/2023	£70k	£52k
31/12/2022	£62k	£53k
31/12/2021	£50k	£50k

Common questions

Is BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH GORSEINON financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £134,131.88 as of 31 December 2025, which exceeds the trustees' stated policy of holding a minimum of six months' expenditure. The charity received total incoming resources of £76,456.56 and incurred total payments of £61,784.93, resulting in a net surplus for the period. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BESSELS GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH.

BESSELS GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH income £859k
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £336k
PENIEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £87k
BETHEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH income £27k
BETHEL EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, WIGSTON income £196k
BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH LALESTON income £63k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BETHEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH GORSEINON	£76k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BESSELS GREEN BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025	£859k	—	0	within	—	no doubt
BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH FY2025	£336k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
PENIEL EVANGELICAL CHURCH FY2024	£87k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BETHEL CHRISTIAN CHURCH FY2025	£27k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
BETHEL EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH, WIGSTON FY2025	£196k	—	—	above	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.