Sittingbourne Baptist Church

Analysis

Sittingbourne Baptist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Sittingbourne. It was registered in August 2012, 14 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Sittingbourne Baptist Church reported income of £195k and spending of £204k, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £146k to £195k (+33%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Sittingbourne Baptist Church sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Eltham Green Fellowship Trust (£193k), The Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Malta (£196k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Margaret's Church Chipstead (£193k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.