CARELINKS

Registered charity 1157202 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIBLE WORLDWIDE TRUST, BIBLES WORLDWIDE TRUST, BWT

We distribute Bibles and other related literature in response to requests from anywhere in the world.We support preaching the Christian gospel, including travel to meet any requesting baptism.We help with relief of poverty amongst those we meet.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:(1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY DISTRIBUTING CHRISTIAN LITERATURE EITHER AT COST OR FREE OF CHARGE.(2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROVIDING OF GRANTS, ITEMS AND SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES, OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity had no employed staff during the year, with trustees and volunteers undertaking management. Per the trustees' report, reserves were well in excess of the policy limit, and funding is in place for the foreseeable future, though historical donations are dwindling.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Norman Hemingray · trustee of 1 other charity
• Deborah Elisabeth Cwiecek
• JEAN FIELD
• Norman John Stock · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROB CLEMENTS
• STEVE GRETTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy Anthony Geddes · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Australia · Belgium · Bulgaria · Cameroon · Canada · Czech Republic · France · Germany · Hungary · Iran · Ireland

Income and spending

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