Charities Administered in Connection with the Bunyan Meeting

Analysis

Charities Administered in Connection with the Bunyan Meeting is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Bedford. It was registered in June 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides buildings/facilities/open space.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Charities Administered in Connection with the Bunyan Meeting reported income of £371k and spending of £422k, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £244k to £371k (+52%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 112%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Charities Administered in Connection with the Bunyan Meeting 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 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Woodlands Green Ltd (£371k), Canterbury Food Bank (£372k) and Redeemed Christian Church of God ('RCCG') His Glory Tabernacle (£371k).

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.