Grace Baptist Association

Registered charity 276352 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AGBC (SE), THE ASSOCIATION OF GRACE BAPTIST CHURCHES (SOUTH EAST)

Objects of the Association are to:1 uphold and promote the Doctrinal Basis2 promote the unity and prosperity of its Member Churches3 assist the Member Churches in their charitable purposes as recognised in English Law4 devise and employ means for the furtherance of the gospel primarily in the Home Counties Geographical Area.

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Financial health, per its FY2023 accounts

The accounts state that total consolidated funds increased by 177% to £8,612,314, driven by exceptional proceeds from the sale of two redundant manses and unrealised investment gains. Per the trustees' report, excluding these exceptional proceeds, the Association incurred a deficit on its general fund, which aligns with their policy of utilising historic reserves. The charity maintains a reserves policy to hold approximately six months' unrestricted expenditure, and the auditor confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2023 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Jacob Cavenagh & Skeet. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~167.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (70% 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: 1.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (05/01/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adrian John Creedy
• Alessandro Miranda Brito
• Andrew James Wigham
• Antony Patrick Rummery
• Ben Owain Jones · trustee of 1 other charity
• COLIN CLARKSON
• Christine Richards
• David Mortimer · trustee of 3 other charities
• David Skull · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Martin Christopher Tatham · trustee of 2 other charities
• Grayson Fuhrman
• JAMES DAVID SAYERS · trustee of 2 other charities
• John Rimes
• MARGARET O'MARA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Matthew Benton
• Matthew John Hodson · trustee of 1 other charity
• Olawale Akintunde Akinrogunde · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Jonathan Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Peter John Fearnley
• Peter Thomas Fuggle · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert Barry King
• Ryan Burton King
• Stephen Whitton
• Thomas Copperwheat

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

Operates in: Buckinghamshire · East Sussex · Essex · Hampshire · Hertfordshire · Kent · Oxfordshire · Surrey · Throughout London · West Sussex

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.

• Ben Owain Jones — trustee here and at GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED
• David Mortimer — trustee here and at GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED
• Dr Martin Christopher Tatham — trustee here and at GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED
• MARGARET O'MARA — trustee here and at GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED
• Peter Thomas Fuggle — trustee here and at GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED

Known funders

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

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 LONDON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.

• THE LONDON BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £2.3m
• SOUTH EASTERN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £656k
• GRACE BAPTIST PARTNERSHIP income £262k
• THE BAPTIST UNION OF GREAT BRITAIN income £11.1m
• GRACE BAPTIST CHARITIES LIMITED income £226k
• CENTRAL BAPTIST ASSOCIATION income £586k

Side by side with its peers

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