The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 6th September 2026

The Church Lands

Registered charity 211409 Registered since 1962

Operates: Hertfordshire

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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

5.4y median 2y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

4y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (3)

0
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 7

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
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£849k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025
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.

0.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 7.6 in 2020

0
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.

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Related organisations

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

EmailACCOUNTS@COLLINSONHALL.CO.UK
Phone01727 843 222
AddressCollinson Hall, 9-11 Victoria Street, ST. ALBANS, AL1 3UB

Finances

£848,695 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2020£671,320£630,436
2021£708,892£534,571
2023£1,001,963£738,461
2024£828,837£741,036
2025£848,695£749,099

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To Organisations

Charitable objects

(1) IN OR TOWARDS THE UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF THE FABRIC OF THE PARISH CHURCHES OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES OF ST PETER ST ALBANS ST PAUL ST ALBANS AND ST LUKE ST ALBANS WITH A PREFERENCE FOR THE SAID PARISH CHURCH OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PETER ST ALBANS. (2) FOR FURTHERING THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN ANY OR ALL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISHES

Governing document: SCHEME DATED 6 JUNE 1995

Trustees (7)

7trustees
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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