FARMERS' CHRISTIAN POSTAL SERVICE

Registered charity 251982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FARMING CHRISTIAN LINK

Provision of support and help to the farming and rural communities by means of the internet and post and attendance at agricultural and other shows.

Objects

A) TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AMONG FARMERS AND FARMWORKERS PARTICULARLY THOE IN REMOTE AREAS; B) TO PUBLISH AND DISSEMINATE WITHOUT CHARGE SUITABLE LITERATURE FOR THIS PURPOSE; C) TO DO SUCH OHER CHARITABLE ACTS OR THINGS WHICH SHALL BE ADUCIVE TO THE AFORESAID OBJECTS.

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.

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Registered contact address: Barnet, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the period with £24,793.77 in the bank account, up from £15,388.51 the previous year. Total income for the period was £52,613.41 against total expenditure of £27,819.64, resulting in a surplus. The document does not disclose a reserves policy target or unrestricted reserves definition beyond the bank balance.

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 4 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 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
• 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
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID RICKMAN SHILLITOEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Anne Kathleen Pennington
• BERNARD HICKS
• Jonathan Marcus Jeffs
• Matthew Fawcett
• PEARL MARY JEFFS
• Phillip John Pennington
• Rosie Fawcett

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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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with STROUD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP.

• STROUD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP income £110k
• THE FARMING COMMUNITY NETWORK income £1.8m
• THE FARMERS' CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST income £67k
• THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £105k
• ST MARY'S CHURCH OF CHRIST income £55k
• FEEDING FAMILIES income £913k

Side by side with its peers

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