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Registered charity · London

Metropolitan Tabernacle

  • 18 trustees
  • Income £2.1m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark
Website
www.metropolitantabernacle.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2013

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£2.1m£1.7m
  • 2023£1.8m£1.7m
  • 2022£1.6m£1.6m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2020£1.8m£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE PRINCIPAL OBJECT OF THE CHARITY IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, THE GLORY OF GOD, THE NURTURE OF GOD'S PROFESSING PEOPLE AND THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC AND ESPECIALLY THE ADVANCEMENT OF THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, TRAINING FOR CHURCH OFFICERS AND MINISTERS, REACHING OUT WITH THE RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND ALL OTHER PEOPLE, CARING FOR THE ELDERLY AND THE PROMOTION OF RACIAL HARMONY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHURCH'S STATEMENT OF FAITH CONTAINED IN THE CHURCH CONSTITUTION AND AS STATED IN PART 1 OF SCHEDULE 1 TO THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION. THE CHURCH MAY ALSO CARRY OUT OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONSISTENT WITH THE FOREGOING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND/OR OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD, AS WARRANTED BY GOD'S WORD.

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.

9.1y median 14y
average tenure
14y
longest tenure
10.3y
average years in governance
0
company-linked trustees

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

Education/training 18General Charitable Purposes 18Religious Activities 17The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • 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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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£2.1m latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

9.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.4 in 2020

26 from 20 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
1151218
Status
Registered
Governing document
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 17/09/2012
Contact on the register
02078401963 · admin@metropolitantabernacle.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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