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Registered charity · Swindon

The British and Foreign Bible Society

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £26m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Albania, Algeria, Angola and more
Website
www.biblesociety.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The British and Foreign Bible Society
Registered
1964

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£26m£26m
  • 2024£24m£25m
  • 2023£23m£27m
Earlier years
  • 2022£23m£20m
  • 2021£22m£18m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

TO ENCOURAGE THE WIDER CIRCULATION OR USE (OR BOTH) OF THE HOLY BIBLE OR ANY PART OR PARTS THEREOF

Grants received

13 grants · £240,980 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

Most recent

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.

13 trustees on the board

5.2y median 5y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (11)

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 13Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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

Business services 1Education 1Health and social care 1

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£26.2m 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.

7.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 8.3 in 2021

166 from 146 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
232759
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER DATED 25 OCTOBER 1948 AND SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTERS DATED 10 SEPTEMBER 1951, 3 DECEMBER 1968, 13 JULY 1984 AND 25 JULY 2007
Companies House
Company number RC000736 · Active
Contact on the register
01793418222 · info@biblesociety.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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