THE VINE TRUST

Registered charity 288706 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4740855 · Wikipedia

The Trust operations a Christian Bookshop in the centre of Andover serving local people and visitors. The Vine Trust engages volunteers mainly drawn from local churches from Andover and the surrounding area to work within its bookshop, social media sites and in management and administrative roles in order to sell and distribute Bibles, Christian literature, and other Christian resources.

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY SUCH LEGALLY CHARITABLE MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT IN THE VICINITY OF ANDOVER IN THE COUNTY OF HAMPSHIRE

Area of benefit: VICINITY OF ANDOVER

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity's unrestricted funds fell by £4,766 to £26,868, primarily due to donations of books and publications. The trustees report that free reserves of £13,896 (excluding fixed assets and stock) remain well above their stated policy target of £7,450, representing three months of unrestricted expenditure. The independent examiner confirmed that no material matters came to their attention during the examination of the accounts.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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 handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• JIM MACDONALDchair
• Gwendoline Von Der Decken
• Keith Briant
• TREVOR JOHN SLEATH I ENG FIET

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

Operates in: Hampshire · Wiltshire

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 THE VINE TRUST WALSALL.

• THE VINE TRUST WALSALL income £98k
• VALLEY CHURCH ANDOVER TRUST income £81k
• TRUE VINE CHURCH TRUST income £141k
• THE VINE (HINCKLEY) income £52k
• TRINITY BOOKSHOP income £77k
• THE VINE CENTRE income £300k

Side by side with its peers

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