Registered charity · Cambridge
The Plain Truth
- 4 trustees
- Income £53k (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Dr Peter William BrierleyChair · since 2014
- Karl AylingTrustee · since 2019
- Mary HammondTrustee · since 2014
- Rev Gethin Russell-JonesTrustee · since 2018
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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People on this board also serve on 2 other charities:
- The Kisumu Children Trust · 1 shared trustee
- Burwell and District DAY Centre Trust · 1 shared trustee
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Website
- www.plain-truth.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- The Plain Truth
- Registered
- 2003
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£53k£73k
- 2024£54k£71k
- 2023£42k£71k
Earlier years
- 2022£43k£81k
- 2021£102k£93k
Charitable objects
TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ABROAD BY MEANS OF THE WRITTEN WORD BY RADIO, BY TELEVISION, BY RECORDINGS, BY PRINTED WORD AND BY PERSONAL EVANGELISM
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Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
4 trustees on the board
- Dr Peter William Brierley Chair since 2014
- Karl Ayling since 2019
- Mary Hammond since 2014
- Rev Gethin Russell-Jones since 2018
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Peter William Brierley Chair since 2014
- Karl Ayling since 2019
- Mary Hammond since 2014
- Rev Gethin Russell-Jones since 2018
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (2)
- Karl Ayling since 2019
- Rev Gethin Russell-Jones since 2018
Portfolio (2)
- Dr Peter William Brierley Chair since 2014
- Mary Hammond since 2014
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1098217
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 17 DECEMBER 2003 as amended on 16 Aug 2018
- Companies House
- Company number 04619778 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 01638741549 · editor@plaintruth.co.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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