Barnabas Fellowship of Churches Trust

Analysis

Barnabas Fellowship of Churches Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Reading. It was registered in September 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources, provides services and provides advocacy/advice/information.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Barnabas Fellowship of Churches Trust reported income of £124k and spending of £130k, spending 105% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £135k to £124k (-8.2%), an average of -2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 52%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Barnabas Fellowship of Churches Trust sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Housing People Building Communities (£124k), Charchar Literacy (£124k) and Saffron Young Peoples Project Limited (£124k).