INTERNATIONAL BIBLE STUDENTS ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 216647 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC046866 (OSCR)

Provide serviced facilities to support religious activity of Jehovah's Witnesses. Arrange for venues to host conventions for Bible education. Pay expenses for and take care of living arrangements for members of the Worldwide Order of Special Full-Time Servants of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Causes: Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of approximately £3.8 million for the year ended 31 August 2025, with total unrestricted funds increasing to £164.6 million. The trustees confirm that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £6.8 million, which exceeds its stated policy target of two months of operational expenditure (£3-£4 million). The auditors have concluded that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rickard Luckin Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

63 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (46 freehold); recorded price paid £25.8m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/04/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/01/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (30/05/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/12/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (15/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/09/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Paul Sutton
• Jonathan Manley
• Karl William Snaith
• Michael Simpson
• Paul Stephen Norton
• STEPHEN CHARLES HALE SYMONDS
• Steve Winston Sylvester

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN.

• WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF BRITAIN income £38.5m
• AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMAAT INTERNATIONAL income £45.1m
• FREE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST FELLOWSHIP income £214k
• SUREWAY INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES income £258k
• IGLESIA NI CRISTO (CHURCH OF CHRIST) income £7.2m
• WORD OF LIFE MINISTRIES UK LIMITED income £163k

Side by side with its peers

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