SHARNBROOK EVANGELICAL CHURCH

Registered charity 1179954 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH, PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN SHARNBROOK AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £34,099 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting in free reserves of £55,316 held entirely as cash or bank balances. The trustees consider this level of reserves appropriate and note that the increase allows the church to continue with confidence while seeking a new pastor. No specific reserves policy target is stated in the document.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (24/05/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Myles MacBeanchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• BRIAN VINCENT BENNETT
• Rev JOHN WILLIAM ALEXANDER HERON
• STEPHEN DOUGLAS FRESHWATER · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Bedford · Kosovo · Thailand

Income and spending

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