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Registered charity (CIO) · London

The ARC

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.4m (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
Religious Activities
Where
Lewisham, Newham, Essex, Waltham Forest and more
Website
www.arc4u.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2016

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.4m£1.2m
  • 2023£1.6m£1.4m
  • 2022£994k£919k
Earlier years
  • 2021£862k£649k
  • 2020£741k£543k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATEMENT OF BELIEFS APPEARING IN THE SCHEDULE HERETO AND BY SUCH MEANS AS ARE CHARITABLE TO FURTHER THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORKS OF THE CHURCH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT;(B) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES BY SUCH MEANS AS THE TRUSTEES OF THE CHURCH MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT INCLUDING BY MEANS OF ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING ANY EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OR ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND ELSEWHERE;(C) TO PROMOTE AND FULFIL SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREAS WHERE THE CHURCH MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE OPERATING IN THE UNITED KINGDOM OR ELSEWHERE AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT.

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.

7 trustees on the board

5.1y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (5)

Portfolio (2)

1
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 7Education/training 2General Charitable Purposes 2

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

Education 1Professional services 1

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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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£1.4m 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.

2.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 0.0 in 2020

14 from 8 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
1165652
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - Foundation Registered 19 Feb 2016
Contact on the register
02085554245 · trustees@arc4u.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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