THE GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL DIOCESAN ASSOCIATION OF CHURCH BELL RINGERS

Registered charity 281431 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as G AND B D A

Support and encourage full-circle church bell ringing. Provide financial support to appropriate belfry restoration projects in affiliated churches.

Objects

1. TO PROMOTE THE RINGING OF BELLS FOR DIVINE SERVICE. 2. TO PRACTISE RINGING TO OBTAIN A HIGHER STANDARD OF RINGING. 3. TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC IN THE ART AND SCIENCE OF CHANGE RINGING. 4. TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE BY WAY OF GRANTS TO AFFILIATED CHURCH AUTHORITIES INCURRING EXPENDITURE ON THE PROVISION, MAINTENANCE OR IMPROVEMENT OF THEIR BELLS AND BELL INSTALLATION.

Area of benefit: GLOUCESTERSHIRE AND THE FORMER COUNTY OF AVON

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 FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £30,299 for the year ended 31 October 2024, driven primarily by a £27,194 deficit in the Belfry Repair Fund. Per the trustees' report, the unrestricted General Fund balance was low at £2,125, though the Management Committee considers there are no uncertainties regarding the Association continuing as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
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• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Roger Hayneschair
• Andrew Lewis Haynes
• Anthony Bulteel
• Bridget Louise Lazenby
• Cameron Waters
• Christopher Kinghorn Cooper
• Daniel Peter Knight
• FIONA ANNE HARTLEY
• Gillian Helen Greef · trustee of 1 other charity
• Gregory James Mulford Jones
• Ian David Bucknell
• JENNI JUDSON
• Jason Lee Carter · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jessica McCarthy
• John Michael Furnival
• Linda Emily Gittings
• MR R CLIVE
• Peter John Harris
• Richard Austen While
• Robert George Blandon

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

Operates in: Bristol City · Gloucestershire · South Gloucestershire · Swindon · Wiltshire

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