AYLESHAM BAPTIST FREE CHURCH

Registered charity 1200799 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

We are a church community that seeks to serve the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of our community.

Objects

THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH ARE:- 3.1.1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH ACCORDING TO THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION. 3.1.2 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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income was £46,877 against expenditure of £45,243, resulting in a surplus for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £10,445, which the trustees consider to be approximately 3.7 months of expenditure, falling within their stated policy target of 3-6 months. The trustees note that they expect to run at a deficit in the near future due to the end of external stipend support, pending increased rental income from a new pre-school tenant.

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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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)

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.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Laura Moncasterchair
• Abigail Moulton
• Dominic Mulford
• Rachel Stanley BA Hons

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• EVESHAM BAPTIST CHURCH income £113k
• BEESTON FREE CHURCH NOTTINGHAM income £601k
• RUISLIP BAPTIST CHURCH income £548k
• CANTERBURY BAPTIST CHURCH income £261k
• SOUTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH income £313k
• NEWBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH income £53k

Side by side with its peers

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