WELTON BAPTIST CHURCH

Registered charity 1188181 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church activities may include but are not restricted to: Regular public worship, prayer, Bible study, preaching/teaching; Baptisms; Communion; Evangelism and mission, locally through to internationally; Teaching and encouragement of young people; Nurture and growth of Christian disciples; Training for Christian service; Pastoral care; Charitable social action; Working with other Christian churches

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.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a significant deficit of £447,684 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily due to expenditure on a chapel refurbishment project. Consequently, unrestricted reserves fell to £130,394 from £326,153 the previous year, though the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern with adequate resources.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 06/02/2024, 6 days after the 31/01/2024 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (07/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Caroline Debra Griffiths
• Christopher John Bennett
• Clare Green
• John Taylor
• Jonathan Bruce Cooper
• Linda Morven Munro
• Matthew Alan Coomes
• Matthew Tim Hebditch
• Michael Andrew Blowers · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Richard Daulby
• Simon Mark Keyworth Webb

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

Operates in: Bath And North East Somerset

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with POULNER BAPTIST CHAPEL.

• POULNER BAPTIST CHAPEL income £417k
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Side by side with its peers

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