INTERNATIONAL BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE

Registered charity 1173899 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as IBTI, INTERNATIONAL BIBLE TRAINING INSTITUTE

A) ADVANCING RELIGION BYI.PROVIDING SCHOOLS, COLLEGES & TRAINING FOR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM ACROSS THE WORLD, EQUIPPING THEM WITH KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN FAITH SO THEY BECOME MINISTERS, MISSIONARIES & EVANGELISTS;II THROUGH MISSION OUTREACHES, CAMPAIGNS, RADIO & TELEVISION BROADCASTSIII PUBLISHING/DISTRIBUTING RELIGIOUS MATERIALB) RELIEVING POVERTY IN UK & WORLDWIDE BY AID

Objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT;(B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND TO PROMOTE AND PRESERVE GOOD HEALTH BY THE PROVISION OF FUNDS, GOODS OR SERVICES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF COUNSELLING AND SUPPORT IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT; AND(C) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SUCH WAYS AND IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OR THE WORLD AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME MAY THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BY PROVIDING AND CARRYING ON SCHOOLS OR COLLEGES TO TRAIN PEOPLE FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD TO BECOME MINISTERS, MISSIONARIES AND EVANGELISTS IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Mid Sussex, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £2,713,405, which is significantly above the trustees' stated policy target of three months' operating expenditure. Although the charity reported a net expenditure deficit for the year, the substantial reserve balance indicates strong financial health and adequate resources to continue in operational existence.

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 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10716786

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• PASTORELLO, Simon — director, appointed 13/06/2023on trustee list
• LEWIS, Bernard Clairvaux — director, appointed 08/04/2017not on trustee list
• SHEPPARD, Martyn Richard — director, appointed 08/04/2017on trustee list
• SHERRATT, Mark Andrew — director, appointed 08/04/2017on trustee list
• WHYTE, John — director, appointed 08/04/2017on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title 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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (08/11/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARK ANDREW SHERRATTchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• JOHN WHYTE · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARTYN RICHARD SHEPPARD · trustee of 2 other charities
• Simon Pastorello

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

Operates in: Throughout England

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.

• MARTYN RICHARD SHEPPARD — trustee here and at THE WOODLANDS TRUST

Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIBLICAL COUNSELLING UK.

• BIBLICAL COUNSELLING UK income £922k
• INTERNATIONAL NEEDS UK income £992k
• BILTON EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £403k
• INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CONSULATE income £186k
• MULTIMEDIA THEOLOGICAL TRAINING LIMITED income £1.4m
• TNT MINISTRIES income £198k

Side by side with its peers

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