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Description
We are working to make the Bible available and accessible worldwide and build people's confidence in it. We are an advocate for the Bible's place in our national life and we work closely with 146 other Bible Societies across the world to deliver our global ministry.
Also known as
- Ada Sutcliffe Memorial
- Bible Society
- Brady Prest Fund
- The British and Foreign Bible Society
- Bible Society
- The British and Foreign Bible Society
- Cymdeithas Y Beibl
- Catholic Bishop’s Conference and Bible Society
- Edward Street United Methodist Free Church
- First Chingford Men's Association 1893-1926 Bible Fund
- Grace Farrar Award
- J and E K Derbyshire Memorial
- Miss Margaret Wilkins Bequest
- Miss Martha Taylor
- Mr Gorham's Bequest
- Mrs Mary Thomas
- Richard Lucas
- Thomas Boyd
- Theos Think Tank
...and 9 other names
CCEW Charity number
Company number
Registered
Postcode
SN5 7DG
Website
Domain
biblesociety.org.uk
Latest income
£23,302,000 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
More about this organisation
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- biblesociety.org.uk
- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Companies House
- Opencorporates
- Wikipedia: British and Foreign Bible Society
Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia links from Wikidata
Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Areas of operation in the UK
Area of operation outside the UK
- United Arab Emirates
- Albania
- Armenia
- Angola
- Argentina
- Austria
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Burkina Faso
- Bulgaria
- Burundi
- Benin
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Brazil
- Botswana
- Belarus
- Canada
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Central African Republic
- Congo
- Switzerland
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Chile
- Cameroon
- China
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Germany
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Algeria
- Ecuador
- Estonia
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Spain
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- Micronesia, Federated States of
- France
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gambia
- Guinea
- Greece
- Guatemala
- Hong Kong
- Honduras
- Croatia
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- India
- Iraq
- Iceland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Jordan
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Cambodia
- Korea, Republic of
- Kuwait
- Kazakhstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lebanon
- Sri Lanka
- Liberia
- Lesotho
- Lithuania
- Latvia
- Morocco
- Moldova, Republic of
- Madagascar
- North Macedonia
- Mali
- Myanmar
- Mongolia
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Malawi
- Mexico
- Malaysia
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Nicaragua
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Nepal
- New Zealand
- Panama
- Peru
- Papua New Guinea
- Philippines
- Pakistan
- Poland
- Puerto Rico
- Palestine, State of
- Portugal
- Paraguay
- Romania
- Serbia
- Russian Federation
- Rwanda
- Seychelles
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Singapore
- Slovenia
- Slovakia
- Sierra Leone
- Senegal
- Suriname
- South Sudan
- El Salvador
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Eswatini
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Chad
- Togo
- Thailand
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Tonga
- Turkey
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tuvalu
- Taiwan, Province of China
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Ukraine
- Uganda
- United States
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
- Viet Nam
- South Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 1 inactive record, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
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Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 232759 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
Christian Research Association (inactive)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Religious congregations
I10
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
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Religion
RL» ChristianityRL200 -
Religion
RL» Religious activitiesRL300» Religious ministryRL305
Theme (CCEW)
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Religious Activities
108
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
-
Children/young People
201 -
Elderly/old People
202 -
People With Disabilities
203 -
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
205 -
Other Defined Groups
206 -
The General Public/mankind
207
Activities (CCEW)
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Makes Grants To Organisations
302 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307 -
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308
Scale of operation
- National and Overseas
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1964-06-01 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-03-31 | 8,798,000 | 8,731,000 |
| 2005-03-31 | 9,431,000 | 10,785,000 |
| 2006-03-31 | 8,527,000 | 8,224,000 |
| 2007-03-31 | 12,357,000 | 9,697,000 |
| 2008-03-31 | 12,517,000 | 12,034,000 |
| 2009-03-31 | 13,999,000 | 20,617,000 |
| 2010-03-31 | 13,195,000 | 13,118,000 |
| 2011-03-31 | 14,855,000 | 14,694,000 |
| 2012-03-31 | 15,222,000 | 14,459,000 |
| 2013-03-31 | 16,379,000 | 14,121,000 |
| 2014-03-31 | 18,774,000 | 16,560,000 |
| 2015-03-31 | 19,746,000 | 17,270,000 |
| 2016-03-31 | 18,146,000 | 16,865,000 |
| 2017-03-31 | 19,537,000 | 18,906,000 |
| 2018-03-31 | 19,448,000 | 17,886,000 |
| 2019-03-31 | 18,771,000 | 19,611,000 |
| 2020-03-31 | 20,239,000 | 21,314,000 |
| 2021-03-31 | 21,505,000 | 17,542,000 |
| 2022-03-31 | 23,039,000 | 19,894,000 |
| 2023-03-31 | 23,302,000 | 26,776,000 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 155 | 142 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 8 | 4 |
| Volunteers | 7,623 | 6,168 |
| Trustees | 14 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
The British and Foreign Bible Society
GB-CHC-232759Statement of Financial Activities
Back to contentsStatement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 9.2 | 9.0 |
| Legacies | 3.4 | 5.1 |
| Endowments | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| Donations and legacies | 12.9 | 14.3 |
| Income from charitable activities | 9.3 | 6.6 |
| Income from other trading activities | - | - |
| Income from investments | 1.0 | 1.9 |
| Other income | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| Total | 23.3 | 23.0 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | 0.1 | 0.1 |
| Other spending on raising funds | 2.9 | 2.7 |
| Spending on raising funds | 3.0 | 2.8 |
| Grants to institutions | 5.0 | 4.0 |
| Other charitable activities | 18.8 | 13.0 |
| Charitable activities | 23.8 | 17.0 |
| Other spending | - | - |
| Total | 26.8 | 19.9 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | (3.5) | 3.1 |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 3.4 | 3.0 |
| Investment assets | 21.6 | 23.1 |
| 25.0 | 26.1 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | - | - |
| Cash | 5.8 | 11.7 |
| Other current assets | 5.4 | 5.8 |
| 11.2 | 17.6 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (3.1) | (4.7) |
| Net current assets | 8.0 | 12.9 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 33.1 | 39.0 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (2.2) | (2.2) |
| Net assets (excluding pension scheme) | 30.8 | 36.7 |
| Defined benefit pension scheme | - | (2.1) |
| Net assets (including pension scheme) | 30.8 | 34.6 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | 11.7 | 13.0 |
| Restricted funds | 2.7 | 3.2 |
| Unrestricted funds | 16.4 | 18.3 |
| 30.8 | 34.6 | |
According to data returned to the Charity Commission, this charity did not receive income from government grants or contracts in 2023 (the latest year with data available) or 2022.
View this organisation's grants on GrantNav.
| Date | Funder | Amount awarded | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culham St Gabriel's Trust | £5,000 | Made in God's Image art exhibition | ||
|
Quartet Community Foundation
Donor Directed |
£150 | Grant to Bible Society | ||
| Culham St Gabriel's Trust | £6,000 | Worldviews in Religious Education: Making a clear case for adopting the concept of worldviews in Religious Education in both community and religious character schools. | ||
|
Essex Community Foundation
Bartleet Family Fund |
£150 | Grant to The British and Foreign Bible Society | ||
|
Mercers' Charitable Foundation
Church and Communities - Stronger Communities |
£41,755
1 year |
Grant to Bible Society
Oct 2018 to Oct 2019 |
||
|
Essex Community Foundation
Bartleet Family Fund |
£150 | Grant to The British and Foreign Bible Society |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Culham St Gabriel's Trust (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Essex Community Foundation (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The Mercers' Company (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Quartet Community Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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