PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF BOURNEMOUTH TOWN CENTRE PARISH

Registered charity 1186400 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

BTCP Parochial Church Council (PCC) has the responsibility of cooperating with the incumbent, the Reverend Canon Nicholas Jepson-Biddle, in promoting in the ecclesiastical parish, the whole mission of the Church, pastoral, evangelistic, social and ecumenical. The PCC is also specifically responsible for the maintenance of the three churches and the Resurrection Chapel at St Peters Church.

Objects

PROMOTING IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH THE WHOLE MISSION OF THE CHURCH.

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased by 9.5% to £621,133 due to ongoing extraordinary expenditure on church renovations and a donation to a new charity. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that available bank funds provide 2.0 times annual expenditure, indicating sufficient resources to continue operations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~16.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 68.4% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER CHARLES MAYNE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dawn Stark · trustee of 1 other charity
• Duncan Lloyd Courts · trustee of 1 other charity
• JANE VIVIENNE MACDONALD LLB
• Janet Elizabeth Lawrence
• John William Beesley
• LISA ANN MACDONALD
• MICHAEL EDWARD EMSLEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Major David Agar
• Mark Holiday
• Nigel James Groome
• Ronalyn Bichard
• Stephen James Chappell

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

Operates in: Bournemouth

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY,WESTCOTT,GUILDFORD.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY,WESTCOTT,GUILDFORD income £171k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S BATTERSEA income £274k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST BARNABAS AND ST PAUL WITH ST THOMAS THE MARTYR, OXFORD income £240k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL (PCC) OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BROMSGROVE income £315k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT THORLEY income £255k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF TORRISHOLME income £213k

Side by side with its peers

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