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Registered charity · London

Hillsong Church London

  • 6 trustees
  • Income £11m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Scotland, Birmingham City, Liverpool City, Italy and more
Website
www.hillsong.com/uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Hillsong Church London
Registered
2007

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£11m£11m
  • 2023£10m£11m
  • 2022£11m£12m
Earlier years
  • 2021£12m£12m
  • 2020£15m£13m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2024: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

3.1) THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE PROCLAMATION AND FURTHERANCE OF THE GOSPEL OF GOD CONCERNING HIS SON JESUS CHRIST THE LORD AND PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD BY THE CHURCH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF FAITH APPROVED BY THE ELDERS OF HILLSONG CHURCH, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA FROM TIME TO TIME ("THE STATEMENT"); AND3.2) THE RELIEF OF ANY PERSON WHO IN IN CHARITABLE NEED;3.3) THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT; AND3.4) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS ARE RECOGNISED AS SUCH UNDER THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES CONSISTENT WITH THE OBJECT SET OUT IN CLAUSE 3.1 ABOVE.

Grants received

3 grants · £30,840 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Sport England · £15,000
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £15,000
  • Home Office · £840

Most recent

  • Sport England £15,0002025-03-12
  • Department for Culture, Media & Sport £15,0002025-03-12
  • Home Office £8402020-04-01
Board analysis

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.

6 trustees on the board

6y median 6y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Religious Activities 6

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Other services 9Professional services 8Property 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

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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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£10.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

6.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 7.7 in 2020

72 from 113 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1120355
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 22/06/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 13/10/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28/06/2007AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/04/2013AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20 DEC 2018 as amended on 24 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 05487537 · Active
Contact on the register
02073849200 · admin@hillsong.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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