THE BIBLE NETWORK

Registered charity 299943 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHRISTIAN MISSION FELLOWSHIP, THE BIBLE LEAGUE OF GREAT BRITAIN

Promotion of the Gospel throught the United Kingdom and overseas.Bible placement programme in order to make copies of the Bible available to all parts of the world through organised distribution channels. Establishing small groups for Bible study.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN EVANGLICAL RELIGION BY PROMOTION OF THE GOSPEL AND TO EXTEND THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL FAITH THROUGHOUT THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OVERSEAS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Wealden, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net surplus of £2,081 for the year ended 5 April 2025, with total incoming resources of £730,549 and outgoing resources of £728,468. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, maintaining unrestricted reserves of £227,379 which are above their stated policy target of £75,000 to £100,000.

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.

• Complaints handling
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 29.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• JOHN SAVAGEchair
• BRENDA SAVAGE
• ROBERT GREEN

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

Operates in: Albania · Belarus · Cambodia · China · Colombia · Egypt · Ethiopia · Guatemala · Haiti · India · Indonesia · Israel

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BIBLE AND GOSPEL TRUST.

• BIBLE AND GOSPEL TRUST income £8.9m
• BIBLICAL FRAMEWORKS income £37k
• Make Known income £899k
• BIBLES FOR CHILDREN income £146k
• THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY income £26.2m
• 24-7 PRAYER income £5.3m

Side by side with its peers

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