COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL EUROPE AND MENA

Registered charity 1193171 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Promoting, developing, and translating/publishing study and devotional material of a Christian nature both for those inside and outside the church, and in particular study courses and other teaching material pertaining to the Bible on the pattern established by Community Bible Study International. The charity works within Europe and Middle East and North Africa

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (AS DEMONSTRATED IN THE STATEMENT OF FAITH) IN SUCH PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE WORLD AS THE CHARITY TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DECIDE

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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Registered contact address: Lewes, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £55,352 for the year ended 31 August 2026, resulting in total unrestricted and restricted reserves of £110,192. The trustees maintain a reserves policy of holding at least three months of annual operating costs, though the document does not explicitly calculate whether the current reserves meet this specific target. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to attention regarding the accuracy of the accounts or the keeping of accounting records.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Investing charity funds 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ian Timothy Pouncechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• CLIVE DESILVER ROBERTS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Christopher Janson Hanbury
• Mae Angelique Palmer
• Stephen Moulding

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

Operates in: Albania · Algeria · Andorra · Armenia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bahrain · Belgium · Bosnia And Herzegovina · Brunei · Bulgaria · Croatia

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL UK.

• COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY INTERNATIONAL UK income £67k
• THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY CHURCH FOUNDATION LTD income £220k
• SHARING CHRIST INTERNATIONALLY income £34k
• INTERNATIONAL PRAISE CENTRE income £762k
• THE BIBLE NETWORK income £731k
• INTERNATIONAL BIBLE TRAINING COLLEGE income £179k

Side by side with its peers

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