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Registered charity · Surrey

The Christian Science Trust in Great Britain

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £818k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
Christianscience.com (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£818k£901k
  • 2024£2.4m£2.9m
  • 2023£1.6m£2.0m
Earlier years
  • 2022£904k£507k
  • 2021£565k£1.1m

Income trend, 2021 to 2024.

Charitable objects

(A) PROMOTING AND EXTENDING THE RELIGION OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS TAUGHT BY MARY BAKER EDDY IN THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK "SCIENCE AND HEALTH WITH KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES".(B) SUCH OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT AND WHICH ARE SUPPORTIVE OF AND CONSISTENT WITH THE TEACHINGS AND PRACTICE OF THE SAID RELIGION.

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.

5 trustees on the board

5.8y median 5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Portfolio (4)

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 5The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 1

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

Other services 1

Gaps to watch

  • 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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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 4 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£2.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

7.9 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 1.4 in 2021

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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
215721
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 16TH APRIL 1956 AS VARIED BY DEED OF THE 21ST JANUARY 1972 AND OF 14TH OCTOBER 1980
Contact on the register
01372 631407 · administrator@trustbrit.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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