FRESH STREAMS NETWORK LTD

Registered charity 280032 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as FRESH STREAMS, MAINSTREAM, MAINSTREAM (BAPTISTS FOR LIFE AND GROWTH) LIMITED

We provide inspiration, encouragement, a website, written papers, a network and prayer support to primarily church ministers and church leaders mainly within, although not exclusively so, the Baptist Union of Great Britain.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND AND IN ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity finished the year with a surplus of £12,424, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £16,676. The trustees aim to retain three months of normal annual expenditure in reserve to ensure continuity of service delivery. The charity acknowledges a reliance on a small number of large church donations and continues to seek sustainable income solutions.

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.

• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALI SUMMERS
• REV AMY LOUISE WEARING
• REV. ANDY GLOVER · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Adrian Semerene · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev MARK FREDERICK ELDER
• Rev Peter James Everitt · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LIFE STREAM CHURCH CIO.

• LIFE STREAM CHURCH CIO income £126k
• Emmanuel Baptist Church Thamesmead income £113k
• FLEET BAPTIST CHURCH income £172k
• THE NETWORK CHURCH income £115k
• BUNYAN BAPTIST CHURCH, STEVENAGE income £169k
• CHRISTCHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH income £410k

Side by side with its peers

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