Rye Baptist Church

Analysis

Rye Baptist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in February 2020, 6 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. Legally it is a charitable incorporated organisation (CIO). It says it provides services, provides advocacy/advice/information and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Rye Baptist Church reported income of £120k and spending of £163k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £192k to £120k (-38%), an average of -11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 83% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Rye Baptist Church sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% 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 The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of All Saints', New Haw (£120k), Walsall Independent Evangelical Church (£120k) and Manchester Relief in Need CIO (£120k).

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.