CHARITY COMMISSION REPORT FOR JANUARY 2025 TO 31[ST] DECEMBER 2025
Trustees:
Jonathan McGill – Chairperson Jenny Davis – Treasurer and Secretary until December 2025 Rev David Wood Keith Miller – from August 2024
Registered Office 2 Ethelbert Road, Bromley BR1 1JA
The charity is a registered Charitable Incorporated Organization No. 1171291.
The trustees present their report together with the financial statements of the charity from 1 January 2025 to the year ended 31[st] December 2025.
OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES
The aims of the organization are to advance the Christian faith particularly but not exclusively by means of caring, listening and helping people on the streets.
Activities – Street Pastors night time Patrols
The primary activity of the charity is to provide patrols of Street Pastors as a service to the community, to give reassurance, safety and support through listening, caring and helping. These patrols advance the Christian faith by practical demonstration of the unconditional love and kindness of God.
The Charity’s main activity and objectives for the year has been to continue to go out on the High Streets of Beckenham, Bromley and Orpington. The Street Pastors by their weekly presence promote a calming influence on the High Streets and complement the work of the Police and other emergency services by providing a supportive presence for potential victims, providing a calming influence for potential offenders and a positive presence for the vulnerable. We continue to engage with people who are lost, alone and unwell.
Activities – Prayer Support for Street Pastors . A minister or church leader comes from the Churches Together in Beckenham to lead a devotion and pray with the Beckenham Street Pastors before they go out on patrol; patrols in Orpington and Bromley always start with prayer and all three areas finish with prayer at the end of their patrols. Orpington Street Pastors have a list of people who pray for Street Pastors, and some are on call when the patrols go out. Beckenham and Bromley have churches and prayer groups who undertake to pray for Street Pastors.
Activities – School Pastors We have 1 Street Pastor who has undertaken additional training to work with young people as a School Pastor to support the teaching of religious knowledge in schools. Our school pastor will also lead on school visits which support the educational curriculum elements which focus on Street Pastors.
Activities – Rail Pastors At the invitation of South East Trains, 3 Street Pastors form the area have undertaken additional training to become Rail Pastors. This team
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patrols on local trains and platforms to support passengers and railway staff. The aim of the scheme is to provide assurance for vulnerable passengers and to reduce the incidents of self-harm on the railway.
Reporting – Each street pastor patrol has a leader who is responsible for the team for the night and writes a report giving details of encounters, conversations, helping vulnerable people, calming aggressive situations and counting bottles and cans picked up.
Achievements and Performance – Street pastors are recognized as one of the key factors in keeping the High Streets calm on a Friday night. They provide a nonconfrontational and supportive service to help those who are vulnerable, for those the worse for drink, or injured. For example people who may be the worse for drink are cared for and every effort is made to get them to their home safely either by a local taxi or by calling a member of the family to come and pick them up.
Street Pastors receive a warm welcome from the public – we have made many friends over the years and had many happy conversations with all kinds of people. The regular interaction with the public produces the significant but intangible benefit of reassurance and promotion of safer behaviour. We routinely get many people thanking us or saying they think Street Pastors is a great idea.
In September 2025 we supported the National Emergency Services Show in Birmingham joining Street and Response Pastors from other areas to provide a supportive presence
There continues to be an improvement in the atmosphere and a measurable reduction in violent crime in the night times when we are on duty in Beckenham, Bromley and Orpington. Police have remarked on the reduction in violence on Beckenham High Street since the Street Pastors started in December 2007 and this is supported by the fact that there is a reduction of police officers deployed in Beckenham and Orpington High Streets on a Friday night. The Bromley Street Pastors are supported by the local police who asked them to restart in the town centre of Bromley in 2022 and would like them to go out weekly. Street Pastors in the Borough of Bromley are regarded as a benefit to the High Streets by the Council and the police.
Contribution made by volunteers
Street pastors come from 24 churches across the Borough of Bromley and are uniformed volunteers after training for 45 hours. We have 38 Street Pastors in the Borough of Bromley. We continue to recover from the lockdowns - Orpington have been able to return to weekly patrols with a once a month Saturday morning patrol. Beckenham managed 24 patrols limited by the reduced number of Street Pastors, Bromley had 24 patrols. A total number of 104 people were helped on the streets, and in addition there were 74 anti-social incidents where Street Pastors calmed aggressive situations, 157 incidents helping vulnerable people, 24 people were signposted to other organizations. 796 bottles were collected during the year, 2 pairs of flip flops were given out.
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FUTURE PLANS
We remain fully committed to maintaining our existing Street Pastor patrols. Our aim is to have weekly patrols again in both Beckenham and Bromley.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The income from 1 January to 31 December 2024 was £1,300.00. We spent £2,028.00 including £426.00 on training and equipping new Street Pastors and £800.00 fees on licence fees and DBS. We had a closing balance of £7,344.00
The charity does not employ any staff.
STRUCTURE, GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT GOVERNING DOCUMENT
The Borough of Bromley Street Pastors’ governing document is a Charitable Incorporated Organization Foundation.
Management and recruitment of new trustees
The Management Committee of the Borough of Bromley Street Pastors, who are also the Trustees of the charity, aim to meet four times a year. All trustees give of their time freely and no remuneration or expenses were paid in the year. We aim to recruit new trustees from the churches supporting the charity.
PUBLIC BENEFIT
The charity’s trustees have regards to the Charity Commission’s public benefit guidance. The trustees are aware of the guidance and have taken it into account when making a decision to which the guidance is relevant in the running of the charity. In any instance where the trustees decide to depart from the guidance they have good reasons for doing so and this is recorded.
The trustees believe that the charity has provided public benefit through the Street Pastors’ regular patrols in Beckenham, Bromley and Orpington.
FINANCIAL REVIEW
The financial statements are set out in the accounts for the period 1[st] January and ending 31[st] December 2025 The accounts have been presented as a receipts and payments account.
Members of Trustees at the date the report and the accounts were approved were
Jonathan McGill (Chair) Jenny Davis – Treasurer and Secretary Rev David Wood Keith Miller
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31[ST] DECEMBER 2025
The trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records which disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charity and to enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with applicable laws and Borough of Bromley Street Pastors Charity No 1171291 Report for 2025
regulations. They are also responsible for ensuring that the charity maintains an adequate system of internal control designed to provide reasonable assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss or unauthorized use and to prevent and detect fraud and other irregularities.
ON BEHALF OF THE TRUSTEES : Signed
Account for Bromley Borough Street Pastors Balance Sheet for Jan 2025 - Dec 2025
| Narrative | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| Donations | £1,300.00 | |
| Training | £504.00 | |
| Uniforms | £426.00 | |
| Licence Fee | £800.00 | |
| DBS | £86.00 | |
| ID Cards | £33.00 | |
| ICO | £35.00 | |
| Other | £144.00 | |
| Total | £1,300.00 | £2028.00 |
| Closing bank balance 31st Dec | 2024 | £8,072.00 |
| Total Income | £1,300.00 | |
| Total Expenditure | £2,028.00 | |
| Closing Balance 31st Dec 2024 | £7,344.00 |
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