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The Trinitarian Bible Society

10 trustees
Income £4.3m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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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, Australia, Brazil, Canada and more
Website: www.tbsbibles.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1964

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£4.3m£4.7m
2023£5.9m£5.1m
2022£4.4m£4.0m

Earlier years

2021£5.1m£3.6m
2020£3.5m£3.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE CIRCULATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AT HOME AND ABROAD.

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.

10 trustees on the board

Dr Marcus Richard Keogh-Brown Chair since 2018
Alun Kent Jones since 2004
Darren Cadapen since 2025
Jonathan Paul Sayers since 2018
REV Trevor Kirkland since 2004
Richard Alan Clarke since 2005
Rev Aaron Lewis since 2016
Rev James Gracie since 2025
Rev John Peter Thackway since 2004
Rev Wesley Irwin since 2022

11.9y median 9y

average tenure

22y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Dr Marcus Richard Keogh-Brown Chair since 2018
Alun Kent Jones since 2004
Jonathan Paul Sayers since 2018
REV Trevor Kirkland since 2004
Richard Alan Clarke since 2005
Rev Aaron Lewis since 2016
Rev John Peter Thackway since 2004

15.9y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (8)

Dr Marcus Richard Keogh-Brown Chair since 2018
Alun Kent Jones since 2004
Darren Cadapen since 2025
Jonathan Paul Sayers since 2018
REV Trevor Kirkland since 2004
Rev Aaron Lewis since 2016
Rev James Gracie since 2025
Rev Wesley Irwin since 2022

Portfolio (2)

Richard Alan Clarke since 2005
Rev John Peter Thackway since 2004

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 10Education/training 1The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Finance 2Business services 1Health 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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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£4.3m 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.

30.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.6 in 2020

42 from 41 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: 233082
Status: Registered
Governing document: THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY 1831/32 as amended on 18 Jan 2022
Contact on the register: 02085437857 · contact@tbsbibles.org
Edition: Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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