Registered charity (CIO) · London

The World Community for Christian Meditation

6 trustees
Income £2.3m (2024)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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: Throughout England
Website: www.wccm.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 2019

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2024£2.3m£2.1m
2023£1.8m£2.0m
2022£1.3m£2.0m

Earlier years

2021£2.2m£1.5m
2020£3.6m£1.4m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES WHICH ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING IN THE TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION OF MEDITATION AND PRAYER AS SET OUT IN THE TEACHINGS OF JOHN MAIN

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

3.4y median 1y

average tenure

11y

longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

Bertrand Bouhour since 2015

3.4y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (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

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on the board
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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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£2.3m latest income

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.

2.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 6.8 in 2020

9 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: 1182213
Status: Registered
Governing document: CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 26 Feb 2019 as amended on 31 Jul 2023
Contact on the register: 02072782070 · welcome@wccm.org
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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