THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 232759 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q920404 · Wikipedia · also known as BIBLE SOCIETY, CYMDEITHAS Y BEIBL

We are working to make the Bible available and accessible worldwide and build people's confidence in it. We are an advocate for the Bible's place in our national life and we work closely with 146 other Bible Societies across the world to deliver our global ministry.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE THE WIDER CIRCULATION OR USE (OR BOTH) OF THE HOLY BIBLE OR ANY PART OR PARTS THEREOF

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: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Swindon, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 10.6% to £26.2 million, driven by growth in trading and donation income. The charity maintains unrestricted reserves of £14.7 million, which the Trustees consider to be nine months' equivalent operating expenditure, sitting at the upper end of their stated three-to-nine-month target range. The going concern basis is supported by strong cash balances and sufficient reserves, with no material uncertainties identified by the auditors.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

6 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (5 freehold); recorded price paid £119k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (75,343 followers) · instagram (15K followers)

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.1 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 10.9% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/06/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (10/07/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/06/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (25/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (19/11/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Eccles CBEchair
• Brenden Thompson
• Chittoor Isaac George · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Olubunmi Olayisade
• Keith Starling
• Leanne Long
• Paul Williams
• Philip Hewinson
• Professor Claire Taylor
• Ramez Atallah
• Richard Taylor
• Rochelle Bond
• Rosemary Nuamah Williams

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

Operates in: Albania · Algeria · Angola · Argentina · Armenia · Australia · Austria · Azerbaijan · Bangladesh · Belarus · Belgium · Benin

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BIBLE NETWORK.

• THE BIBLE NETWORK income £731k
• UNITED BIBLE SOCIETIES ASSOCIATION income £35.0m
• BIBLE AND GOSPEL TRUST income £8.9m
• THE WORD FOR THE WORLD, UK income £307k
• BSL BIBLE TRANSLATION PROJECT income £43k
• THE CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM income £52k

Side by side with its peers

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