CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, MAIDSTONE

Registered charity 255941 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, MAIDSTONE

Christian Science Church and Reading Room

Objects

TO MAINTAIN AND SPREAD THE TRUTH AS SET FORTH IN THE BIBLE AND INTERPRETED IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK, "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES BY MARY BAKER EDDY THE DISCOVERER AND FOUNDER OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE".

Area of benefit: MAIDSTONE

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: Maidstone, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased to £58,647 from £51,726 in the previous year, driven by higher investment income and room hire fees. Total expenditure remained stable at £27,064, resulting in a net movement in funds of £65,069 after including unrealised investment gains. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £451,499, which the trustees consider sufficient to meet objectives for the foreseeable future.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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 (15/09/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Elinor Hutchisonchair
• CAROLE ANN PENROSE
• JENNIFER HARMER
• JOHN STUART PENROSE FCA
• PETER SNELL
• Ruth Hilary Smith
• Sally Parker

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

Operates in: Kent

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JOINT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM UK.

• JOINT CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM UK income £140k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY SEVENOAKS income £51k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, BLACKHEATH, LONDON income £51k
• THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TRUST IN GREAT BRITAIN income £437k
• CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY, HIGH WYCOMBE AND MAIDENHEAD income £107k
• Christian Science Society, Windermere income £51k

Side by side with its peers

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