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Objectives and activities
Charity objects and public benefit
BMS exists to see people brought to faith in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and experience the abundant life that only he can provide. This enables Baptist churches to respond to the call of God throughout the world in making known the gospel of Jesus Christ, to prevent and relieve poverty, sickness and human suffering caused by disasters overseas, and to promote and advance healthcare and education.
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BMS brings public benefit by focusing on some of the Most Marginalised and Least Evangelised areas of the world, and with People on the Move who are displaced from their homes in these areas. BMS works in places where churches are scarcely present, and in some of the poorest nations as defined by the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We work on service delivery through partners in the bottom quarter of the MPI where state and market are inadequately developed to support basic human resilience and flourishing, and working with partner churches towards community transformation, to meet localised gaps not covered by the state or market in the third quarter of the MPI.
BMS aims to support people with opportunity and basic services in locations that have a high refugee outflow towards Europe and is also developing work with transit refugees on the provision of basic humanitarian assistance.
The charitable work of BMS is funded by over £7.7m of public donations per annum (2021: £8m).
The trustees review the aims, objectives and activities of the charity each year. This report looks at what the charity has achieved and the outcomes of its work in the reporting period. The trustees report the success of each key activity and the benefits the charity has brought to those groups of people that it is set up to help. The review also helps the trustees ensure the charity’s aims, objectives and activities remained focused on its stated purposes.
The trustees have referred to the guidance contained in the Charity Commission’s general guidance on public benefit when reviewing the charity’s aims and objectives and in planning its future activities. In particular, the trustees consider how planned activities will contribute to the aims and objectives that have been set.
