THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Registered charity 1174364 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as B M S, BMS, BMS CYMRU, BMS WORLD MISSION

To make known the Gospel of Jesus Christ;To prevent and relieve poverty;To relieve sickness and promote and protect health;To advance education; andTo alleviate human suffering caused by disaster overseas.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves decreased to £3.5m, matching the charity's stated policy target, down from £7.3m in the prior year. The charity reports a net expenditure of £1.55m for the year, driven by charitable activities and an actuarial loss on its pension scheme. The trustees confirm the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Trading subsidiary: BAPTIST HOUSE LIMITED Companies House 02366122
• Registered company of the charity Companies House 10849689

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.

• KEHINDE-TAIWO, Remilekun Adeola — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• SWABY, Rachel Lois — director, appointed 13/05/2026on trustee list
• TIEWSOH, Tejdor Singh — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• GRANT, Peter David — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• KING, Sarah Bridget — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• MARULE, Ronas Moahloleng, Rev — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• MELVILLE, Aidan James — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• NORRIS-SILVA, Matthew James, Dr — director, appointed 01/09/2024on trustee list
• GRAY, Richard John Harrison — director, appointed 01/01/2023on trustee list
• AGBONASEVBAEFE, Anthony Osakpamwan, Dr — director, appointed 18/05/2021on trustee list
• ELLIOT, Ruth Elizabeth — director, appointed 19/10/2020on trustee list
• OWEN, David Marc, Rev — director, appointed 28/03/2019on trustee list
• CADMAN, Lynn Jennifer — director, appointed 13/03/2018on trustee list
• TAN, Kang-San, Dr — director, appointed 12/12/2017on trustee list
• TRIMBLE, Caroline Anne — secretary, appointed 01/06/2022

Official officers record.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.6 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/10/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (17/01/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aidan James Melville · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Anthony Agbonasevbaefe
• Dr Kang-San Tan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Matthew James Norris-Silva · trustee of 1 other charity
• Lynn Cadman
• Peter David Grant
• Rachel Lois Swaby
• Remilekun Adeola Kehinde-Taiwo
• Rev DAVID MARC OWEN · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Ronas Moahloleng Marule
• Richard John Harrison Gray
• Ruth Elizabeth Elliot
• Sarah Bridget King · trustee of 1 other charity
• Tejdor Singh Tiewsoh

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

Operates in: Afghanistan · Albania · Bangladesh · Chad · China · France · Guinea · Haiti · India · Israel · Kosovo · Lebanon

Income and spending

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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 CHARITY FOR ST JOSEPH'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BRITISH REGION).

• CHARITY FOR ST JOSEPH'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BRITISH REGION) income £2.2m
• RELATIONAL MISSION income £431k
• HERTFORD BAPTIST CHURCH income £345k
• CHRISTCHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH income £410k
• THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £11.1m
• PENTECOSTAL MISSIONARY CHURCH OF CHRIST (4TH WATCH) income £195k

Side by side with its peers

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