THE BAPTIST UNION CORPORATION LIMITED

Registered charity 249635 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activities of the charity are helping churches with guidance on legal, property and charity matters as well as having responsibility for various funds and investments.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ITS PRACTICE ESPECIALLY BY THE MEANS AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE BAPTIST DENOMINATION. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF THE MEMORANDUM.)

Area of benefit: NATIONAL.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media 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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00032743

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Lynn Green — General Secretary (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.

• MILLER, Damien Graham — director, appointed 17/01/2025on trustee list
• KANEEN, Karen Elizabeth — director, appointed 16/09/2024on trustee list
• BECKETT, Hayley Jayne — director, appointed 16/02/2024on trustee list
• PANDIAN, Mohan — director, appointed 01/09/2023on trustee list
• WALKER, Timothy John — director, appointed 12/05/2023on trustee list
• CHOWNS, Timothy Ian — director, appointed 03/02/2023on trustee list
• CHESWORTH, Ann Louise, The Revd — director, appointed 05/11/2020on trustee list
• WALLS, Peter Ewart — director, appointed 17/06/2020on trustee list
• HANNING, Christopher Douglas, Dr — director, appointed 06/02/2020on trustee list
• PONSFORD, Jeremy — director, appointed 25/01/2019on trustee list
• WARD, Graham Stewart — director, appointed 10/07/2018not on trustee list
• HAWKSWORTH, Andrew William — director, appointed 25/06/2018on trustee list
• SOUTHCOMBE, Michael Arthur — director, appointed 01/02/2017not on trustee list
• LEVICK, John David — director, appointed 07/06/2016on trustee list
• ENGLISH, Robert John — director, appointed 14/07/2014on trustee list
• MARTINDALE, Karen Averil — director, appointed 01/07/2009on trustee list
• WELCH, Stephen Peter — director, appointed 01/06/2007on trustee list
• MILLER, Damien Graham — secretary, appointed 24/11/2025

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1,836 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1751 freehold); recorded price paid £63.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (57% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/10/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Christopher Douglas Hanningchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Damien Graham Miller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Hayley Jayne BECKETT · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jeremy Ponsford
• John Levick · trustee of 1 other charity
• KAREN AVERIL MARTINDALE
• Karen Elizabeth Kaneen
• MICHAEL ARTHUR SOUTHCOMBE MCIOB
• Mohan Pandian · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mr G Ward
• Peter Ewart Walls · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev ANN LOUISE CHESWORTH
• Rev Andrew William Hawksworth
• Robert John English
• STEPHEN PETER WELCH · trustee of 1 other charity
• TIMOTHY JOHN WALKER · trustee of 5 other charities
• Timothy Ian Chowns

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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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).

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNIFIED BODY OF CHRIST CHURCH INTERNATIONAL.

• UNIFIED BODY OF CHRIST CHURCH INTERNATIONAL income £34k
• CROWTHORNE BAPTIST CHURCH income £153k
• LIFE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH income £50k
• THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £11.1m
• HARRINGAY UNITED CHURCH-BAPTIST income £140k
• TAUNTON BAPTIST CHURCH income £46k

Side by side with its peers

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