2025-08-31-accounts - The Open Bible Trust

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Trustees' Annual Report for the period

		Period start date	Period start date	Period start date	Period start date	Period start date			Period end date	Period end date	Period end date
		01	09			09	2024		31	08	08		2025
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Section A Reference and administration details	Section A Reference and administration details	Section A Reference and administration details					Section A Reference and administration details
	Charity name			Charity name	Charity name	THE OPEN BIBLE TRUST

Other names charity is known by		Other names charity is known by		Other names charity is known by	Other names charity is known by
Registered charity number (if any) Charity's principal address				Registered charity number (if any)326717 Charity's principal address FORDLAND MOUNT UPPER BASILDON READING, BERKSHIRE Postcode RG8 8LU ~~ee~~
Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity	Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity
	Trustee name	Office (if any)						Dates acted if not for whole year				Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (ifany)
1	ANDREW MARPLE
2	CLIFFORD RICHMOND	CLIFFORD RICHMOND						01/09/24 to 08/02/25			01/09/24 to 08/02/25
3	VICTORIA WILKINSON	SECRETARY
4 WILLIAM HENRY	4 WILLIAM HENRY	CHAIRMAN
5 ANDREA MARPLE	5 ANDREA MARPLE
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	Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)		Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)				Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)				Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)
	Name							Dates acted if not for whole year

Section A Reference and administration details

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Type of adviser Name Address

Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)

Section B Structure, governance and management

Description of the charity’s trusts

TRUST DEED

Type of governing document (eg.trust deed, constitution) TRUST How the charity is constituted

(eg. trust, association, company)

APPOINTED BY TRUSTEES Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant, about:

policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
relationship with any related parties;
trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.

Section C Objectives and activities

Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document

The object of the Trust shall be the furtherance of the Christian faith to bring men and women to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth and to prepare God’s people for works of service so that the Body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God (1 Timothy 2:4; Ephesians 4:12-13).

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In accordance with paragraph 3 of the Trust Deed, during the year ended 31 August 2025, the Open Bible Trust:

(1) Published 6 Christian magazines ( Search ), 6 Bible Study Booklets, and 4 new books.
(2) Continued to hold monthly one-hour mid-week Bible Studies and one three-hour Saturday afternoon conference on Zoom.
(3) Continued to send Christian Magazines and literature free of charge to prisoners in Britain, people in nursing and care homes, and to ministers and pastors in Third World countries, mainly in Africa.

Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)

(4) Continued to try to get Christian resources to prison chaplains and prisoners.
(5) More booklets, pamphlets and graphics were added to the website as free downloads, to help and encourage people, bringing the total to over 150 and 86 past issues of “Search” have been added to the free downloads. Also, more free Bible studies were put on YouTube, bringing the total to over 350.
(6) Published more e-Books on Kindle and i-tunes, raising the number to over 400.
(7) Continued to develop the OBT Facebook site, especially to advertise publications, resources and forthcoming events.
(8) Continued producing podcasts and developing the new podcast channel having five series consisting of over 40 podcasts.
(9) Working with amazon.com 30 of the OBT’s e-books were turned into audio books.

The Trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit.

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

April 2009

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Volunteers helped with:

editing publications
proof reading
designing covers
the OBT website
writing articles, booklets and books

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

speaking at live events as well as evening Zoom Bible studies and Saturday afternoon Zoom conferences and the OBT podcast channel and the OBT YouTube channel
processing printed publications for e-book format
policy on grant making;
policy programme related investment;
contribution made by volunteers.

Section D Achievements and performance

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Section D Achievements and performance

Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year

(1) Search magazine and other publications were made available to the public for a modest fee and sent free to various prisoners and others in need in the UK, and to various people in the third world. (2) The administrator undertook speaking engagements via Zoom and in person in various churches in the South of England. (3) Further work was undertaken on the OBT website, the OBT Facebook page, the OBT YouTube site, the OBT Podcast channel and the new audio books. (4) Provided guest speakers, via Zoom, for the annual conference of the Berean Bible Fellowship of Australia, and for their weekly studies. (5) Exhibited at Christian Resources Exhibitions and produced videos of seminars given for the CRE website.

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Section E Financial review

Reserves are used to subsidise the production of Search and the Bible Brief statement of the Study Booklets to keep the annual subscription low. charity’s policy on reserves

Details of any funds materially in deficit

Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.

Section F Other optional information

Section G Declaration

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signed Signature(s) Signed Andrew Barry Marple Full name(s) William Murray Henry Position (Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 17-03-2026

April 2009

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||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |THE OPEN BIBLE TRUST|326717| |Receipts and payments accounts|CC16a| |For the period| |01/09/2024|To|31/08/2025| |from| |———| |Section A Receipts and payments| |Unrestricted|Restricted|Endowment| |Total funds|Last year| |funds|funds|funds| |to the nearest| |to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £|to the nearest £| |£| |A1 Receipts| |Sales of books, CDs & DVDs|7,536|-|-|7,536|6,802| |Subscriptions|3,549|-|-|3,549|3,210| |Donations|19,818|-|-|19,818|32,335| |Legacy|10,000|10,000|1,000| |Tax reclaimed|2,966|-|-|2,966|2,650| |Bank deposit interest|2,516|-|-|2,516|-| |VAT|283|-|-|283| |Sub total|(Gross income for| |46,668|-|-|46,668|45,996| |AR)| |=== >=| |A2 Asset and investment sales,| |(see table).| |Investment sales|-|-|-|-|-| |Asset sales|-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|-|-|-|-|-| |Total receipts|46,668|-|-|46,668|45,996| |——————| |A3 Payments| |Printing|4,270|-|-|4,270|5,554| |Purchases of books|887|-|-|887|397| |Salaries & NI|15,984|-|-|15,984|15,970| |Stationery & computer supplies|528|-|-|528|1,304| |Promotion & advertising|2,474|-|-|2,474|2,993| |Insurance|363|363|328| |Telephone & postage|6,970|-|-|6,970|7,198| |Travel expenses|661|-|-|661|1,068| |Miscellaneous|-|-|-|-| |Bank charges|390|-|-|390|404| |VAT|-|-|-|-|290| |Sub total|[ 32,527 ]|-|-|32,527|35,505| |A4 Asset and investment| |purchases,|(see table)| |Asset purchases|-|-|-|430| |-|-|-|-|-| |Sub total|[ - ]|-|-|-|430| |Total payments|32,527|-|-|32,527|35,935| |Net of receipts/(payments)|14,141|-|-|14,141|10,061| |A5 Transfers between funds|-|- -|- -| |A6 Cash funds last year end|72,895|- -|72,895|62,834| |Cash funds this year end|—|87,036|S55|-|-|87,036|72,895|

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CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

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Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Tax reclaim due Other debts Details Bank balances Details Details Computer equipment Furniture & fittings Signature yes Tax due not yet paid	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 87,036 - - - - - 87,036 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 1,340 - 2,539 - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) Unrestricted - Unrestricted - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) Unrestricted - - - - - Print Name William M Henry	Endowment funds to nearest £
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		Date of approval
yes	William M Henry	08/02/2026

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

16/03/2026

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Independent examiner's. report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to themembers trustees/ of || TIte CPEN RiBLE -_TRUST On accounts for the year Charity no| . ended | ©1109/2024 — 3,(9@(2025 (ifany) | 226717

| report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 31 / 0%/ 762%.

Responsibilities and As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation basis of report of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

| report in respect of my examination of the Trust's accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, | have followed the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act. Independent | have completed my examination. | confirm that no material matters have examiner's statement thecomeexamination to my attentionwhich (ethertharthatdisciesed-below=)gives me cause to believe that in,inany connectmater i alon with respect: e accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or e the accounts do not accord with the accounting records

| have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached. * Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

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