BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH HARPENDEN

Registered charity 1176089 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BETHANY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP, BETHANY COMMUNITY CHURCH

Weekly Church services, mid-week meetings and prayer times. Programmes that engage the elderly, youth, children and toddlers.Provide individual prayer ministry, one to one support and food parcels.Provide financial support to two local charities who are working with vulnerable women and people in debt.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH, IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND TO FULFIL SUCH OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES AND ARE CONNECTED WITH THE CHARITABLE WORK OF THE CIO; AND2) TO RELIEVE PERSONS WHO ARE IN CONDITION OF NEED OR HARDSHIP BY REASON OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP, ILL-HEALTH, DISABILITY, UNEMPLOYMENT OR SUCH OTHER ECONOMIC OR SOCIAL DISADVANTAGE IN SUCH WAYS AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE.

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

Causes: Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income for the year was £551,554 against total expenditure of £404,321, resulting in a net surplus. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £177,273, which significantly exceeds its stated policy target of £75,000 (equivalent to three months of operating costs).

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (21/06/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Daniel Millerchair
• Andrew Peter Spilman
• Anthony Michael Stennett
• Claire Denise Crawley MCIPD
• NEIL JAMES CHITTY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olutoyin Awe
• Robyn Dominique Munt
• Timothy John Wood

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

Operates in: Hertfordshire · Luton

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• HARPENDEN METHODIST CHURCH income £768k
• HEADINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £358k
• HEXHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH income £224k
• MEADOWHEAD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £461k
• BETHANY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £25k
• HEBRON EVANGELICAL CHURCH income £34k

Side by side with its peers

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