CHRISTADELPHIAN BENEVOLENT FUND

Registered charity 222416 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C B F, CHRISTADELPHIAN CENTRAL BENEVOLENT FUND

The trust was established to relieve conditions of need, hardship or distress of the Christadelphian Community in the British Isles by providing grants. The trust has a policy of making regular grants, the largest of which is the Christadelphian care homes and irregular compassionate grants to individuals.

Objects

RELIEF OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTADELPHIAN BODY WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN POOR AND STRAIGHTENED CIRCUMSTANCES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Solihull, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity held unrestricted reserves of £2,973,378 against total funds of £3,006,762, with a net gain for the year of £63,375. The trustees reviewed reserves and concluded the size would enable them to meet future demands on the charity. The document notes no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ELISABETH JANE BRILEY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fiona Ruth Whittaker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Margaret Nicholls · trustee of 1 other charity
• John Mark Buckler · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mark David Leinster · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mark William Halstead
• PAULINE ELVA BROMAGE · trustee of 1 other charity
• Ruth Meryl Deedman · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE CHRISTADELPHIAN SAMARITAN FUND.

• THE CHRISTADELPHIAN SAMARITAN FUND income £78k
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• CASTLE BROMWICH CHRISTADELPHIAN ECCLESIA income £26k
• CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVANTS LIMITED income £51k
• THE CHRISTADELPHIAN HALL AND BUILDINGS SOCIETY BIRMINGHAM income £699k

Side by side with its peers

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