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Bethesda Baptist Church Stowmarket

RegisteredRegistered charity number 1136075StowmarketReligion
Income£95k2025-03-31
Spending£96ksame year
Spent / received96%5-year average
Size in its cause61st pctReligion
Registered2010Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Bethesda Baptist Church Stowmarket is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Stowmarket. It was registered in May 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides human resources and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Bethesda Baptist Church Stowmarket reported income of £95k and spending of £96k, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £88k to £95k (+7.9%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2025, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Bethesda Baptist Church Stowmarket sits at the 61st percentile: it is larger than about 61% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Abundant Life Community Church (£95k), The British Friends of the Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael Trust (£96k) and Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Greenfield, St Mary (£95k).

Income and spending

£0£24k£48k£72k£96k2021 Income: £88,4842021 Spending: £95,44720212022 Income: £79,8152022 Spending: £64,33320222023 Income: £83,8752023 Spending: £76,96820232024 Income: £80,0882024 Spending: £76,54520242025 Income: £95,4842025 Spending: £96,0272025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

to provide a place of worship, instruction and fellowship for Christians and to carry out the command of Christ to go and make disciples of all nations baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and will include other such charitable purposes that will further the work of the Church.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Abundant Life Community ChurchKent£95k
The British Friends of the Diaspora Yeshiva Toras Yisrael TrustLondon£96k
Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Greenfield, St MaryLancashire£95k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew's, Gorleston-On-SeaGreat Yarmouth£96k