BRIDGNORTH BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1181045 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the Christian faith according to the principles of the Baptist denomination in the UK and other parts of the world.

Objects

THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION.THE CHURCH MAY ALSO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND CARRY OUT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

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 finished the financial year with a very slight surplus, having incorporated the full costs of the new minister and the purchased Manse for the first time. The trustees note that future building improvements will require raising additional money, but no specific reserves policy or deficit figures are disclosed in the provided text.

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

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• 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 (1 freehold); recorded price paid £280k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew James
• George Hirsch
• Kimberley Ray
• Mark Gibbons
• Rosemary Anderson
• Steven Lindsay Ford-Thomson · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Shropshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH BRIDGEND.

• HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH BRIDGEND income £141k
• EARLSFIELD BAPTIST CHURCH income £459k
• CRANBROOK BAPTIST CHURCH income £105k
• STANMORE BAPTIST CHURCH income £160k
• VICTORIA PARK BAPTIST CHURCH income £119k
• WEST BRIDGFORD BAPTIST CHURCH income £105k

Side by side with its peers

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