BRISTOL SCHOOLS CONNECTION

Registered charity 1162067 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSC

Providing support for spiritual development and pastoral care to students, school staff and families thus impacting positively upon the school communityEnabling safe and imaginative spiritual development and learning opportunities for all ages within school and informal church contextsWorking with churches and schools to connect the life of the two communities to their mutual benefit

Objects

TO ADVANCE AND TO DEVELOP AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY ENCOURAGING AND ENABLING CHURCHES WITHIN BRISTOL CITY TO CONNECT WITH THEIR LOCAL SCHOOL COMMUNITIES IN WAYS WHICH ARE POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE, AND IN PARTICULAR IN LESS RESOURCED AREAS. THE CHARITY WILL FURTHER THIS PURPOSE THROUGH ACTION RESEARCH, BASED IN ONE LOCALITY, AND BY PROVIDING AN EXEMPLAR OF OUTSTANDING PRACTICE FOR OTHERS TO LEARN FROM AND ADAPT TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL CONTEXT. THESE CONNECTIONS WILL:- PROVIDE SUPPORT IN THE AREA OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND PASTORAL CARE TO STUDENTS, SCHOOL STAFF AND FAMILIES WITH THE AIM THAT THIS WILL IMPACT POSITIVELY UPON THE WELLBEING OF THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY TO THE BENEFIT OF THE STUDENTS, STAFF AND FAMILIES;- ENABLE AND CREATE SAFE AND IMAGINATIVE SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL AGES WITHIN BOTH A SCHOOL CONTEXT, AND AN ACCESSIBLE, INFORMAL CHURCH CONTEXT;- WORK WITH CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS TO CONNECT THE LIFE OF THE TWO COMMUNITIES TO THE MUTUAL BENEFIT OF BOTH; PARTICULARLY BEING MINDFUL OF HOW CHURCHES CAN POSITIVELY SERVE COMMUNITIES WHERE THE MAJORITY OF POPULATION ARE OF ANOTHER FAITH OR OF NO PARTICULAR FAITH.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

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Registered contact address: North Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £8,200 for the year ended 31 August 2025, reversing a previous deficit. Free reserves stood at £27,000, which the trustees consider reasonable and represent 150% of their stated target of £18,000. The charity remains reliant on ongoing financial gifts from individuals, trusts, and churches to fund its activities.

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 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

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

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/08/2023 (received 28/10/2024, 120 days after the 30/06/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (31/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• TONY MILESchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Emelye Margaret Chanot
• Jonathan Hogg
• Sally Jane Martin
• WENDY JANE MASSEY

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

Operates in: Bristol City

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• ANTHONY CROFTON MILES — trustee here and at THE BURDEN TRUST

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL TRUST.

• BRISTOL INTERNATIONAL TRUST income £112k
• BELMONT-BIRKLANDS SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED income £2.1m
• BRISTOL BAPTIST COLLEGE income £659k
• BRISTOL ISLAMIC SCHOOLS TRUST income £70k
• CONNECTIONS TRUST income £116k
• ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL (HAMPSTEAD) LIMITED income £5.5m

Side by side with its peers

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