Registered charity (CIO) · Barking
Barking Churches Unite (BCU)
- 10 trustees
- Income £263k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Anne DearTrustee · since 2017
- Antoinette WilliamsonTrustee · since 2023
- Audrey Beverley SutherlandTrustee · since 2023
- Elizabeth MednickTrustee · since 2017
- Michael MednickTrustee · since 2017
- Michael TaylorTrustee · since 2017
- Sandy TomlinsonTrustee · since 2022
- Theresa IbrahimTrustee · since 2017
- Unesu Audrey Chindabata RevTrustee · since 2019
- William DearTrustee · since 2020
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, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities and 1 more
- Where
- Essex, Barking And Dagenham
- Website
- barkingchurchesunite.org (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2017
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£263k£239k
- 2023£256k£220k
- 2022£157k£141k
Earlier years
- 2021£89k£77k
- 2020£118k£60k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Income source mix, 2024: Government grants 32%. From the charity's annual return.
Charitable objects
THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE: 1) TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE STATEMENT OF FAITH BY ADVANCING THE NETWORKING AND WORKING TOGETHER OF CHURCHES IN BARKING AND FACILITATING CHURCHES IN BARKING TO PRAY TOGETHER FOR THE COMMUNITY OF BARKING2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY IN THE BARKING COMMUNITY BY PROVIDING SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS IN NEED.
Grants received
9 grants · £144,000 total360Giving 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
- The Charity of Sir Richard Whittington · £62,000
- Mercers' Charitable Foundation · £40,000
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £30,000 (3 grants)
- Crisis UK · £5,000
- Barking & Dagenham Giving · £5,000
Most recent
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.
10 trustees on the board
- Anne Dear since 2017
- Antoinette Williamson since 2023
- Audrey Beverley Sutherland since 2023
- Elizabeth Mednick since 2017
- Michael Mednick since 2017
- Michael Taylor since 2017
- Sandy Tomlinson since 2022
- Theresa Ibrahim since 2017
- Unesu Audrey Chindabata Rev since 2019
- William Dear since 2020
Trustees past 6 years
- Anne Dear since 2017
- Elizabeth Mednick since 2017
- Michael Mednick since 2017
- Michael Taylor since 2017
- Theresa Ibrahim since 2017
- Unesu Audrey Chindabata Rev since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Anne Dear since 2017
- Antoinette Williamson since 2023
- Audrey Beverley Sutherland since 2023
- Elizabeth Mednick since 2017
- Michael Taylor since 2017
- Sandy Tomlinson since 2022
- Theresa Ibrahim since 2017
- Unesu Audrey Chindabata Rev since 2019
- William Dear since 2020
Portfolio (1)
- Michael Mednick since 2017
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1173315
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 07 Jun 2017
- Contact on the register
- 02085942404 · thesourcebcu@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th 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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