BAY CHURCH (TORBAY)

Registered charity 1194618 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Church of England faith charity, planting a new church in Torbay

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC LIVING IN TORBAY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENTS OF BELIEF APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE.

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 FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £87,511 for the year, driven by a significant deficit on restricted funds despite a surplus on unrestricted funds. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £193,732, which exceeds the stated policy target of £70,000, providing a buffer as grant funding reduces.

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 5 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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/06/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.6 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Matthew Rhys Joel Braychair
• Elizabeth Ann Cinque
• Janet Miles
• Michael Hugh Nixon
• Neil Williams · trustee of 2 other charities
• Peter Harry Sharp
• Victoria Louise Lovell

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

Operates in: Torbay

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with SHOEBURYNESS AND THORPE BAY BAPTIST CHURCH.

• SHOEBURYNESS AND THORPE BAY BAPTIST CHURCH income £345k
• Together Church Torbay income £111k
• HERNE BAY BAPTIST CHURCH income £114k
• TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, PENARTH income £240k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARTIN CAMBERLEY income £113k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF BATH ST. BARTHOLOMEW income £449k

Side by side with its peers

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