Tyndale House and Institute

Registered charity 1161396 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7860447 · Wikipedia · also known as TYNDALE HOUSE

Tyndale House supports research in the area of Biblical studies, by providing scholars with a library and residential accommodation, and funding in-house research projects.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE COMPANY ARE TO ADVANCE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH PROMOTING BIBLICAL SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH.

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cambridge, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves totalled £1,393,174, which significantly exceeds the trustees' stated policy target of 12 weeks of budgeted operating costs (£251,151). The charity reported a net increase in total funds of £1,972,308 for the year, driven by donation income and interest generated on significant cash balances held for future construction projects.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Chater Allan LLP. 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
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £2.0m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/10/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR Steffen Jenkins
• David Kemlo Laing
• Dr Donald John MacLean · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr Stephen Moore
• Keith Bintley · trustee of 1 other charity
• REV Alistair Donald
• SUSAN ORGYLL DAVIES-SCOURFIELD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sarah Louise Tett · trustee of 4 other charities
• William David James

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP.

• TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP income £52k
• CHURCH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP (TYNEDALE) income £94k
• BIBLICAL COUNSELLING UK income £922k
• TYNDALE BAPTIST CHURCH, BRISTOL income £167k
• CHAPEL HOUSE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £89k
• LYDIA HOUSE TRUST income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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