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Registered charity · Abingdon

Bible Reading Fellowship

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £1.9m (2025)
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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
Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.brf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Bible Reading Fellowship
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.9m£2.0m
  • 2024£1.9m£2.5m
  • 2023£1.9m£2.2m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.2m£2.1m
  • 2021£2.1m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2021: Government grants 4%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

TO ADVANCE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BYA) ENCOURAGING UNDERSTANDING OF THE BIBLE BY PEOPLE OF ALL AGESB) ENCOURAGING AND RESOURCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE AND/OR MINISTRY AMONGST PEOPLE OF ALL AGES

Grants received

11 grants · £372,150 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.

5.3y median 4.5y
average tenure
15y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

16.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (5)

10
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 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 2General Charitable Purposes 1Overseas Aid/famine Relief 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.

Tech and media 10Education 7Other services 4

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£1.9m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

7.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 8.9 in 2021

47 from 42 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
233280
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION DATED 1929 AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24 SEPTEMBER 2003.AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/12/2014
Companies House
Company number 00301324 · Active
Contact on the register
01865319700 · enquiries@brf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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