THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 1181392 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUGB

TO PROVIDE ENCOURAGEMENT, ADVICE AND SUPPORT TO MEMBER CHURCHES SO THAT THEY TOO MAY MAXIMISE THEIR ABILITY TO ACHIEVE THEIR OWN CHARITABLE OBJECTIVE OF MAKING JESUS CHRIST KNOWN TO INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted free reserves of £10.37m, which falls within the trustees' stated policy target range of £2.9m to £5.7m. The trustees and auditors confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern for at least twelve months from the date of approval. The charity reported a net deficit for the year, with total expenditure exceeding total income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2024) → 2 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Baptist Union (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lynn Green — General Secretary (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Jeniya Gwendu
• Mark Spriggs
• Mohan Pandian · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter David Spencer King · trustee of 8 other charities
• REV LYNN MARGARET GREEN BA MST
• Rev Philip Lutterodt
• Rev Shayla Frances Waugh
• Suzanne Kathryn Leveson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Timothy James Clarke

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BAPTIST UNION CORPORATION LIMITED.

• THE BAPTIST UNION CORPORATION LIMITED income £3.8m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BATH ST. BARTHOLOMEW income £449k
• RUGBY BAPTIST CHURCH income £240k
• CHRISTCHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH income £410k
• HERTFORD BAPTIST CHURCH income £345k
• WOODBRIDGE QUAY CHURCH income £248k

Side by side with its peers

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