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Registered charity · Chessington

Bible and Gospel Trust

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £8.9m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and more
Website
www.christiandoctrineandgospelpublishing.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Bible and Gospel Trust
Registered
2005

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.9m£6.1m
  • 2024£7.9m£5.8m
  • 2023£7.0m£6.3m
Earlier years
  • 2022£5.6m£5.4m
  • 2021£3.5m£5.7m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS ARE TO PROVIDE FOR THE INCREASE AND IMPROVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE AND THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE WRITINGS AND WORKS OF J N DARBY, F E RAVEN, JAMES TAYLOR SENIOR, JAMES TAYLOR JUNIOR, JAMES HARVEY SYMINGTON, JOHN STEPHEN HALES, BRUCE DAVID HALES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS AS MINISTER OF THE LORD IN THE RECOVERY INCLUDING BY PROVIDING FOR THE PURCHASE, PRINTING, PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OR SALES OF SUCH WRITINGS AND WORKS EITHER GRATUITOUSLY OR AT SUCH OTHER PRICE (INCLUDING A PRICE LESS THAN COST) AS THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT SUBJECT TO THE TRUSTEES HAVING A DISCRETION TO RESTRICT DISTRIBUTION OF PUBLICATIONS DESIGNATED BY THE TRUSTEES FROM TIME TO TIME AS "HELPFUL MINISTRY FOR THE SAINTS"

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

5 trustees on the board

6.2y median 7y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (2)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 5Other Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Manufacturing 5Retail and trade 5Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£8.9m latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

30.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 20.5 in 2021

24 from 28 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1110085
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ON 09 JUNE 2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 25 OCT 2018 as amended on 14 Apr 2025
Companies House
Company number 05476487 · Active
Contact on the register
020 3301 7219 · info@bgtuk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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