Bible Encounter Trust Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Registered charity 1179838 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BIBLE ENCOUNTER, BIBLE ENCOUNTER CHARITABLE INCORPORATED ORGANISATION, BIBLE ENCOUNTER TRUST

PROVIDES VISITS TO LOCAL SCHOOLS,CHURCHES AND OTHER PLACES TAKING ASSEMBLIES,LESSONS OR OTHER TALKS AS REQUESTED PROVIDING BENEFIT FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD 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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted cash funds of £37,664 at the end of the period. The independent examiner reported that no material matters came to their attention regarding the accounts or accounting records.

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
• 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
• Investment
• 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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/04/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID GRAHAM LOWCOCK · trustee of 1 other charity
• Elizabeth Sarah Kathryn Burrows
• MARK DAVID PAUL TOMLINSON
• PHILIP GEORGE HENRY WELLS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Leslie Webster
• Sally Ann Webster

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

Operates in: Cheshire East · Manchester City · Oldham · Stockport · Trafford

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.

• DAVID GRAHAM LOWCOCK — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, CHEADLE
• PHILIP GEORGE HENRY WELLS — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, CHEADLE

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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Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRINGING GOOD NEWS.

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• OASIS CENTRAL CHURCH income £69k
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• BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH income £25k
• BRAMPTON CHARITABLE TRUST income £101k

Side by side with its peers

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