BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH (NEWPORT)

Registered charity 1172841 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity advances the Christian Faith, primarily in the Newport, South Wales area. The church also provides services and facilities to improve the life of the residents of the Newport area and seeks to provide education and relieve sickness and financial hardship by the provision of goods, funds or services in the UK or the wider world.

Objects

1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WIDER WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT.2) THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTEREST OF SOCIAL WELFARE FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE-TIME OCCUPATION WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS OF BANESWELL AND OTHER AREA OF NEWPORT, WALES. THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES BEING SUBJECT TO COMPATIBILITY WITH THE OTHER CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS DETERMINED BY THE TRUSTEES3) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.4) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.5) TO PROMOTE SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Recreation · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £17,886 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £229,047 and total expenditure of £246,933. Per the balance sheet, the charity holds unrestricted net assets of £8,577,703, largely comprised of fixed assets valued at £8,498,000. The trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011.

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/07/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• PASTOR ANDREW CLEVERLYchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• JONATHAN CROFT
• PAULINE GOULD
• Robert James Burton
• SARAH CROFT
• STEVEN ARMSTEAD

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

Operates in: Monmouthshire · Newport City · Torfaen

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BETEL CHURCH income £40k
• BETHEL TROWBRIDGE APOSTOLIC CHURCH income £28k
• BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £336k
• BETHEL COMMUNITY CHURCH income £52k
• BETHEL MINISTRIES (BLACKPOOL) income £56k
• BETHEL FREE CHURCH, LEEDS income £26k

Side by side with its peers

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