BRASS TACKS LIMITED

Registered charity 298767 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRASS TACKS · also registered in Scotland as SC052170 (OSCR)

Provision of practical and financial assistance to Christian projects throughout the world.

Objects

TO PROMOTE MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH THROUGH PROVIDING PRACTICAL AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND MISSIONARIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN ALL THEIR ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS IN FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

Area of benefit: NANTIONAL AND OVERSEAS

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Accommodation/housing · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£143k

Latest spending

£173k

Registered

1988

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £303,049 are held, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover nearly two years of expenditure against a policy target of the lower of £175,000 or twelve months of costs. The document notes that these reserves are exaggerated by large exceptional donations received during the year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: the lower of £175,000 or twelve months of costs (held: £303k)

“The charity aims to always hold a minimum of the lower of £175,000 or twelve months of costs” — page 5

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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 policy and procedures
Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Internal risk management policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
Social media policy and procedures
Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Volunteer management

Register events

Received assets from another charity (14/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (09/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Samuel John Thompson Phillipschair
Alistair James Small
David Thorp
James Armstrong · trustee of 1 other charity
LUKE GRAHAM BUTLER
MATTHEW JAMES GARVEY PITTS
Naomi Rachel Wyatt
PAUL TROTMAN

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

Operates in: Angola · Brent · Congo (Democratic Republic) · France · India · Ireland · Islington · Jordan · Spain · Zambia

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£143k	£173k
31/03/2024	£170k	£168k
31/03/2023	£215k	£154k
31/03/2022	£162k	£120k
31/03/2021	£89k	£91k

Common questions

Is BRASS TACKS LIMITED financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves of £303,049 are held, which the trustees consider sufficient to cover nearly two years of expenditure against a policy target of the lower of £175,000 or twelve months of costs. The document notes that these reserves are exaggerated by large exceptional donations received during the year. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
THE PG & NJ BOULTON TRUST LIMITED	1	£82k
ANAND & SETHI FAMILY CHARITY TRUST	1	£68k
BETHEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (REFORMED) CARDIFF WEST	1	£48k
THE GOSHEN TRUST	1	£24k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF FORDHAM & EIGHT ASH GREEN	1	£17k
OAKHALL CHURCH, CATERHAM	1	£17k
ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST	1	£14k
THE GRACE TRUST	1	£14k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST.

BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST income £2.6m
GURUNANAK income £1.4m
KARIN BRASS MEMORIAL FUND income £244k
TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH income £141k
THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE income £3.8m
FOCUS INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CENTRE income £126k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
BRASS TACKS LIMITED	£143k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
BATH CHRISTIAN TRUST FY2025	£2.6m	£60,001 - £70,000	—	above	—	no doubt
GURUNANAK FY2025	£1.4m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
KARIN BRASS MEMORIAL FUND FY2025	£244k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
TOGETHER FOR CHRIST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS CHURCH FY2025	£141k	£30,632	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE FY2025	£3.8m	—	—	below	—	no doubt

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