Thebibletable.com
Hampshire Christian trust, also called Ten Thousand Good Reasons, that helps homeless people in southern English towns and spent £19,975 in 2024/25 on "foreign missions", including three missionaries in India
| thebibletable.com
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|---|---|
| Type | Trust |
| Founded | 2019-01-31 (registered) |
| Registration ID | Registered charity 1181816 |
| Headquarters | Bordon GU35 |
| Area served | Throughout England, India, Israel, Nepal |
| Key people | S Lewis (chair) |
thebibletable.com (other name Ten Thousand Good Reasons) is an unincorporated charity whose trust deed was amended by special resolution on 30 January 2019; it was registered on 31 January 2019 and its correspondence address is in Bordon GU35.[1][2] Its objects are the relief of poverty in the UK through grants, interest-free loans, items and services, and the advancement of the Christian religion "within the UK and outside the UK, Worldwide", including missionary and outreach work.[2] The accounts for the year to 31 March 2025 describe help for homeless people in Guildford, Godalming, Reading, Basingstoke, Southampton and "Folkstone" [sic], help with bills, car repairs, groceries and transport for UK families, street evangelism with "100's of free bibles", and support for "three missionaries in India who are facing persecution daily".[2] The trustees are S Lewis, M Lewis and D Lewis, matching the register's Mrs S Lewis (chair), Ms M Lewis and Mr D Lewis (all from 11 May 2018).[2][3] Income is shown as £46,400, made up of donations of £46,164 (2024: £41,024) and sundry income of £235; charitable spending was £45,309 (2024: £39,362), including foreign missions £19,975, financial relief £8,116, gifts and donations £6,472, homeless support £5,749, activities and events £4,599 and governance £900; funds rose from £8,545 to £8,735, and loans of £5,049 were outstanding.[2] The accounts were examined by Castle View Accounting Ltd of Arundel.[2]
Objects and activities
The charity's registered objects read: "THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY WITHIN THE UK BY PROVIDING GRANTS OF MONEY, INTEREST FREE LOANS OF MONEY, ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED AND/OR CHARITIES OR OTHER ORGANISATIONS WORKING TO PREVENT OR RELIEVE POVERTY.THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION WITHIN THE UK AND OUTSIDE THE UK WORLDWIDE BY RAISING AWARENESS & UNDERSTANDING OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS & PRACTICES, CARRYING OUT RELIGIOUS DEVOTIONAL ACTS, CARRYING OUT AND/OR SUPPORTING OR CONTRIBUTING FINANCIALLY TOWARDS MISSIONARY AND OUTREACH WORK."[3]
The register describes its activities as: "1. To advance the Christian faith in accordance with the principles of evangelical, orthodox Christianity for the benefit of the public in the United Kingdom and, where appropriate, throughout the world. This includes but is not limited to:o Christian teaching, preaching, evangelism, and public worship.o Street preaching, prayer initiatives, and Christian outreach activities.o Providing past"[3]
Register classifications: Religious Activities.[3]
Areas of operation recorded on the register: Throughout England, India, Israel, Nepal.[3]
Trustees
Current trustees, with other charities on which the same register trustee ID appears:[3]
| Trustee | Appointed | Chair | Other trusteeships |
|---|---|---|---|
| S Lewis | 2018-05-11 | Yes | — |
| D Lewis | 2018-05-11 | — | |
| M Lewis | 2018-05-11 | — |
Historical trustees (UK Government Web Archive)
| Capture date | Trustees listed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-01-07 | D Lewis (from 11 May 2018); M Lewis (from 11 May 2018); S Lewis (chair) (from 11 May 2018) | [4] |
| 2021-07-03 | D Lewis (from 11 May 2018); S Lewis (chair) (from 11 May 2018); M Lewis (from 11 May 2018) | [5] |
Finances
| Financial year end | Income | Expenditure |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-31 | £24,696 | £23,830 |
| 2022-03-31 | £34,691 | £33,351 |
| 2023-03-31 | £30,160 | £26,256 |
| 2024-03-31 | £41,024 | £40,142 |
| 2025-03-31 | £46,400 | £46,209 |
Source: register annual-return history.[3]
Funding in Israel
- No spending in Israel is identified; "foreign missions" of £19,975 are described only as support for three missionaries in India.[2]
Israeli partners
No Israeli partner is named. The register lists India, Israel and Nepal among the charity's areas of operation.[3]
Activity beyond the Green Line and support for the IDF
Findings are graded by confidence. "Partner" findings concern the Israeli recipient organisation, not proven use of UK funds.
| Finding | Confidence |
|---|---|
| No place in Israel is named.[2] | Not established |
Support for the IDF: No IDF or military funding is stated.[2]
Controversies and regulatory action
- No Charity Commission inquiry, Official Warning or Gazette insolvency notice naming this charity was found, and its register entry shows no regulatory alert;[6] it is not among the charities named in the Commission's cheque-cashing class-inquiry announcements (May, September and December 2025) or in the September 2026 statement of results.[7][8][9][10] The charities in the Commission's settlements class inquiry (opened August 2026) have not been named, so it is not known whether this charity is among them.[11]
- Template wording. The notes refer to the charity as "the CIO", although it is an unincorporated trust.[2][1]
Other registers and records
Scotland and Northern Ireland
No entry was found on the Scottish Charity Register for this charity (register export dated 14 October 2026, searched by name).[12] No entry was found on the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland register (API name searches returned zero results).[13]
The Gazette
Searches of The Gazette notice feeds (all notices, insolvency and company) for the charity's name found no insolvency, winding-up or strike-off notice.[14]
Grants recorded by 360Giving
No grants received or made by this charity are recorded in 360Giving data.[15]
Sanctions screening
The charity's name, its current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees and officers named in the accounts read for this profile and (for charitable companies) its Companies House officers were screened against the UK Sanctions List and the OFSI Consolidated List. No match was found.[16]
Land and property
The register records that the charity does not own or lease land or property.[3] No title registers were purchased; the HM Land Registry interactive search blocked automated access.[17]
Parliament
Hansard exact-phrase searches for "thebibletable.com", "Ten Thousand Good Reasons", "The Bible Table" returned 0 contributions in total.[18]
Web archive
The UK Government Web Archive holds 2 archived Charity Commission register pages used in this profile (cited in the sections above). The 2021 archived full print showed the status "Recently registered" and "Other regulators: No information available".[4]
External links
- No current official website.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charity Commission, thebibletable.com (1181816): full print Register of Charities, retrieved 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 Charity Commission, thebibletable.com (1181816): accounts and annual returns Register of Charities; latest accounts downloaded 16 October 2026 ("PDF p." = page of the PDF file).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Charity Commission for England and Wales, Register of Charities public extract (tables charity, charity_trustee, charity_annual_return_history, charity_area_of_operation, charity_classification, charity_other_names), extract dated 14 October 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Register entry 1181816, full print (capture of 20210107) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Register entry 1181816, full print (capture of 20210703) UK Government Web Archive.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Register of Charities, charity overview page (register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/-/charity-details/ followed by the organisation number) for each of the 25 batch-23 charities, all retrieved on 16 October 2026 and checked for a "Regulatory alerts" notice; none was shown.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Serious concerns over use of £22 million triggers investigation by charity regulator GOV.UK, 14 May 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator opens next phase of investigation into 105 charities connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 1 September 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator announces next charities to be investigated as part of inquiry connected to company cashing cheques GOV.UK, 4 December 2025.
- ↑ Charity Commission, Regulator concludes investigation into 4 charities as class inquiry continues GOV.UK, 9 September 2026, with Statement of the results of a class inquiry (same date).
- ↑ Charity Commission, Charity regulator opens inquiry into charities working in illegal Israeli settlements GOV.UK, 5 August 2026 (a fact-finding statutory class inquiry initially involving 8 charities which "are not being publicly named at this time").
- ↑ Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, Scottish Charity Register download OSCR, export dated 14 October 2026; keyword search of the 25 batch-23 charity names found no matching Scottish registration.
- ↑ Charity Commission for Northern Ireland, Register of charities search API CCNI, searched 16 October 2026 (keyword searches for each of the 25 batch-23 charity names returned zero results).
- ↑ The Gazette: notices matching 'Ten Thousand Good Reasons' The Gazette, searched 16 October 2026.
- ↑ 360Giving API: grants received by GB-CHC-1181816 360Giving, queried 16 October 2026.
- ↑ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Sanctions List (CSV); Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, Consolidated List of Financial Sanctions Targets (ConList.csv). Batch-23 screening covered 249 name strings: the 25 charity names and their other names, current register trustees, trustees named on archived register pages, trustees, officers and other people named in the accounts and websites read for this batch, and the Companies House officers of the charitable companies; the only hits were generic words (such as "Trust", "Company Limited" in the name of a corporate formation agent, and ".com") and surname-only matches, which were rejected; no person matched. Screened 16 October 2026.
- ↑ HM Land Registry, Search for land and property information GOV.UK – the service returned HTTP 403 (bot protection) to automated access in October 2026; no titles were looked up or purchased. Candidate title numbers below come from the free CCOD / OCOD datasets (October 2026 release), not from paid title registers.
- ↑ UK Parliament, Hansard search API: contributions matching the exact phrase "Ten Thousand Good Reasons" Hansard, queried 16 October 2026 (Spoken and Written endpoints; quoted-phrase search).