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Trust Funds and Property Held in Connexion with Blunham Old Meeting Baptist Church

RegisteredRegistered charity number 237680BedfordReligion
Income£13k2025-12-31
Spending£29ksame year
Spent / received56%5-year average
Size in its cause26th pctReligion
Registered1968Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

Trust Funds and Property Held in Connexion with Blunham Old Meeting Baptist Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in August 1968, 58 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to individuals and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Trust Funds and Property Held in Connexion with Blunham Old Meeting Baptist Church reported income of £13k and spending of £29k, spending 227% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £28k to £13k (-53%), an average of -17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 2203%. Over the whole period it spent 56% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Trust Funds and Property Held in Connexion with Blunham Old Meeting Baptist Church sits at the 26th percentile: it is larger than about 26% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Raby School Trust (£13k), Lowestoft Muslim Centre (£13k) and Grantham Chinese Christian Church (£13k).

Income and spending

£0£42k£84k£126k£168k2021 Income: £27,6042021 Spending: £22,83520212022 Income: £7,2742022 Spending: £15,44320222023 Income: £167,5002023 Spending: £39,26620232024 Income: £14,2402024 Spending: £20,97820242025 Income: £12,9122025 Spending: £29,3342025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

Maintains the Old Baptist Chapel in Blunham and associated property, on behalf of the worshipping congregation. Also provides a small annual sum for distribution to the poor of the parish in accordance with the trust deeds.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
The Raby School TrustWirral£13k
Lowestoft Muslim CentreLowestoft£13k
Grantham Chinese Christian ChurchUnited Kingdom£13k
The Friends of St Wulfram's Church, GranthamGrantham£13k