KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO

Registered charity 1193135 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH

The charity conducts Christian worship services open to the public.It teaches the Christian gospel from the Bible to children, young people and people of all age groups, through a variety of activities.It provides pastoral care to people.It donates funds to other organisations which teach the gospel and/or provide humanitarian aid.It mostly operates from the Baptist chapel in Kesgrave.

Objects

3.1. THE PURPOSES OF THE CIO ARE:3.1.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH, DOCTRINAL DISTINCTIVES AND ETHICAL STATEMENTS, PRIMARILY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, WITHIN KESGRAVE, SUFFOLK, AND THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBOURHOOD; AND3.1.2. SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES, AS SHALL IN THE OPINION OF THE CHARITY TRUSTEES FACILITATE THE WORK OF THE FELLOWSHIP, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PURPOSES MUST BE CARRIED OUT IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH THE BASIS OF FAITH, DOCTRINAL DISTINCTIVES AND ETHICAL STATEMENTS.

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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Latest income
£103k
Latest spending
£83k
Registered
2021
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the financial statements were prepared on a cash and receipts basis. The document does not disclose specific figures for unrestricted reserves or a reserves policy target, nor does it detail fundraising costs relative to income.

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

What the accounts disclose

Payments to trustees: Tom Mawson is employed as pastor.
“Currently one trustee, Tom Mawson, is employed by the church as pastor.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Suffolk

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
30/09/2025£103k£83k
30/09/2024£75k£85k
30/09/2023£78k£76k
30/09/2022£155k£153k
30/09/2021£32k£28k

Common questions

Is KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the financial statements were prepared on a cash and receipts basis. The document does not disclose specific figures for unrestricted reserves or a reserves policy target, nor does it detail fundraising costs relative to income. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO?

Funders whose own accounts filings name KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO as a grant recipient include SPORT, AMENITIES, RECREATION IN KESGRAVE.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

FunderYearAmountPurpose (as stated by the funder)
SPORT, AMENITIES, RECREATION IN KESGRAVEFY2024£10kAwning

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.

FunderSimilar charities fundedAmount to them
GOLD HILL CHURCH TRUST1£1.5m
Boodles Charitable Trust1£20k

Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
KESGRAVE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO£103k—0unclear—no doubt
ZION BAPTIST CHURCH, MELBOURN FY2024£127k—0unclear—no doubt
BOVEY TRACEY BAPTIST CHURCH FY2024£114k—0unclear—no doubt
FULLBRIDGE EVANGELICAL CHURCH FY2024£199k—0unclear—no doubt
BARTON CHURCH CANTERBURY FY2025£374k—0unclear—no doubt
NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH FY2025£127k—0unclear—no doubt

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