CHARITIES OF JAMES TILDEN FOR BAPTISTS

Registered charity 216462 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as TILDEN TRUST

Once the cost of repairs, insurances and all other outgoings in respect of its properties had been met, along with all the other costs and charges associated with administration and management, the Charities continued to make various grants to support local Particular Baptist churches in the county of Kent as per the objectives of its founding scheme of 1896.

Objects

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Area of benefit: SEE INDIVIDUAL CONSTITUENTS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,619,176 at the end of the year, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet ongoing obligations. The charity reported a net movement of funds decrease of £46,778 due to investment losses, but maintained a strong balance sheet with significant investment assets. No material uncertainties or going concern issues were identified by the independent examiner.

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.

• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• NORMAN LEONARD HOPKINSchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ANDREW COLLIER WATTS
• JOHN THOMAS MCDONALD · trustee of 1 other charity
• Marcus Benjamin Funnell
• Matthew John Hopkins · trustee of 1 other charity
• PAUL MATTHEW HOPKINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• PHILIP GEORGE BUSS · trustee of 3 other charities
• PHILIP JABEZ DAVID HOPKINS MA OXF · trustee of 1 other charity
• ROWLAND KENNETH WHEATLEY · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BATES CHARITABLE TRUST.

• THE BATES CHARITABLE TRUST income £26k
• THE JAMES BEATTIE CHARITABLE TRUST income £46k
• TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH TENTERDEN income £69k
• JOHN JAMES CHARITABLE TRUST income £344k
• HODDESDON BAPTIST CHURCH income £147k
• HOBDEN FOUNDATION income £176k

Side by side with its peers

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