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Purley Baptist Church

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £955k (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities and 1 more
Where
Croydon, Surrey
Website
www.purleybaptist.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Purley Baptist Church
Registered
2009

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£955k£772k
  • 2023£692k£701k
  • 2022£691k£668k
Earlier years
  • 2021£612k£560k
  • 2020£621k£573k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2023: Government grants 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

1 THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES USUALLY DENOMINATED 'EVANGELICAL' AND IN PARTICULAR THOSE SET OUT IN THE ARTICLES OF FAITH2 THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION3 THE ADVANCEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT4 THE PREVENTION AND RELIEF OF POVERTY; AND5 SUCH OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE LEADERSHIP TEAM MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE

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.

9 trustees on the board

5.2y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

8
company-linked trustees

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

General Charitable Purposes 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 9Education/training 7Religious Activities 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.

Other services 11Professional services 2Health and social care 1

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£955k latest income
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.

6.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 5.2 in 2020

14 from 13 in 2020
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
1132285
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 29 SEPTEMBER 2009
Companies House
Company number 07033844 · Active
Contact on the register
02086680422 · office@purleybaptist.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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