BIBLE READING FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 233280 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRF

BRF is a Christian charity. Our vision is to enable people of all ages to grow in faith and understanding of the Bible and to see more people equipped to exercise their gifts in leadership and ministry. BRF's ongoing work is delivered through four defined areas of charitable activity: Anna Chaplaincy, Living Faith, Messy Church and Parenting for Faith.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a loss for the year of £596,996, driven by an operating deficit and exceptional costs including a VAT settlement and bad debt write-off. Despite this, the trustees consider the level of unrestricted free reserves to be appropriate for safeguarding future activities, noting that the funds are adequate for immediate future requirements.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00301324

What the charity says about itself (2024/25)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — BRF Ministries (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Richard Fisher — Chief Executive (CE) (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SHEARD, Mark Robert, Mr. — director, appointed 27/11/2024on trustee list
• PROFFITT, Christina Rathika — director, appointed 21/09/2023on trustee list
• LEEDS, David Jack — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• MITCHELL, Gillian Verity — director, appointed 29/06/2023on trustee list
• GOODLIFF, Paul Weston, Revd Dr — director, appointed 30/06/2022on trustee list
• HILLS, Julian James — director, appointed 18/03/2021on trustee list
• HOWARD, Andrew Craig — director, appointed 18/03/2021on trustee list
• BARTON, Andrew James — director, appointed 12/03/2020on trustee list
• WILKINSON, Michael Barry — director, appointed 28/03/2019not on trustee list
• CLARKE, Suzanna Penny — secretary, appointed 29/02/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~7.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (61% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.7% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (12/04/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANDREW JAMES BARTON · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Craig Howard
• Christina Rathika Proffitt
• David Jack Leeds · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gillian Verity Mitchell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julian James Hills · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK ROBERT SHEARD · trustee of 4 other charities
• Mike Wilkinson
• Rev Paul Weston Goodliff
• Rev SARAH ELIZABETH HAYES

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Gillian Verity Mitchell — trustee here and at THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST AUGUSTINE'S WITH ST LUKE’S , BROMLEY COMMON

Known funders

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

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 BRAVE CHURCH.

• BRAVE CHURCH income £531k
• FREE BELIEVERS IN CHRIST FELLOWSHIP income £214k
• BRIXTON FULL GOSPEL CHURCH TRUST income £107k
• THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD (RCCG) CHAPEL OF HIS GLORY BRADFORD income £377k
• FAITH CHRISTIAN GROUP (READING) CIO income £425k
• BRADFIELD & ROUGHAM BAPTIST CHURCH income £269k

Side by side with its peers

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