Registered charity (CIO) · Kenilworth
Friends of the Holy Land
- 9 trustees
- Income £1.6m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- Rt Rev James CurryChair · since 2023
- Charles ReedTrustee · since 2023
- Dr David RyallTrustee · since 2023
- Janet Elizabeth BensonTrustee · since 2025
- Mary Gail BrownTrustee · since 2023
- Michael Francis SwinburneTrustee · since 2023
- Rev David John Hasting LongeTrustee · since 2023
- Rev Lurliene MillerTrustee · since 2025
- Susan OliverTrustee · since 2023
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales, Jordan, Israel, Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Website
- www.friendsoftheholyland.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2023
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.6m£1.3m
- 2024£1.7m£964k
Charitable objects
THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN EACH CASE IN ISRAEL, PALESTINE, JORDAN AND CYPRUS (TOGETHER THE "HOLY LAND") BY IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN, AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO, SCHOOLS, EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND PARISHES, PRINCIPALLY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, RUN BY THE LATIN PATRIARCHATE OF JERUSALEM AND/OR THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF JERUSALEM, FOR MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IN THE HOLY LAND; ANDTHE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY AND SICKNESS IN THE HOLY LAND BY FINANCIAL SUPPORT, ORGANISATION OF SELF-HELP PROJECTS, PURCHASE OF GOODS AND ARTEFACTS OF ALL KINDS FROM MEMBERS OF THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOR RE-SALE BY THE CHARITY AND THROUGH ANY OTHER MEANS BY WHICH THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE CAN BE IMPROVED.
Board analysis for researchers
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 trustees on the board
- Rt Rev James Curry Chair since 2023
- Charles Reed since 2023
- Dr David Ryall since 2023
- Janet Elizabeth Benson since 2025
- Mary Gail Brown since 2023
- Michael Francis Swinburne since 2023
- Rev David John Hasting Longe since 2023
- Rev Lurliene Miller since 2025
- Susan Oliver since 2023
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (1)
- Janet Elizabeth Benson since 2025
Portfolio (8)
- Rt Rev James Curry Chair since 2023
- Charles Reed since 2023
- Dr David Ryall since 2023
- Mary Gail Brown since 2023
- Michael Francis Swinburne since 2023
- Rev David John Hasting Longe since 2023
- Rev Lurliene Miller since 2025
- Susan Oliver since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
3.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 7.3 in 2024
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1202568
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CIO - FOUNDATION Registered 30 Mar 2023
- Contact on the register
- 01926512980 · office@friendsoftheholyland.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th 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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