Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church

The Church advances Christian faith by the preaching of the Gospel, public worship within the church building,organised Bible studies, prayer meetings, evangelistic events and meeting needs within the community.

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Torfaen

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 December 2025, it had income of £133,629 and spent £153,799.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Up 225%, from £41,093 in the year to 31 December 2023 to £133,629 in the year to 31 December 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 115% of its income in the year to 31 December 2025. It spent more than its income in 1 of the 3 years shown.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 December 2025: £600 from 1 grant. Government contracts: Not reported.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 2 grants to this charity since 2023, worth at least £8,800.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

4 trustees run the charity.

• Jonathan Paul RaineChairAppointed 1 September 2012
• John Stuart VinallAppointed 21 March 2017
• Jonathan WestAppointed 17 September 2023
• Mark Anthony HandsAppointed 15 January 2013

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 3 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1203297

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

26 May 2023

Governing document

CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 26 May 2023

Website

www.livinghope.org.ukAs the charity gave it on the register.

Council area of its contact address

Torfaen

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Torfaen Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Torfaen's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Sir Fynwy Torfaen