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Registered charity · London

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £8.1m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
www.spck.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowlege
Registered
1971

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£8.1m£7.1m
  • 2024£6.9m£6.6m
  • 2023£6.3m£5.9m
Earlier years
  • 2022£8.4m£8.1m
  • 2021£5.8m£5.3m
Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE IN ANY PART OF THE WORLD BY SUCH MEANS, INCLUDING THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION AT ALL LEVELS, AS THE SOCIETY MAY FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

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.

8 trustees on the board

5.1y median 4.5y
average tenure
9y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

13.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

4
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 8Religious Activities 8General Charitable Purposes 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.

Professional services 7Property 6Tech and media 4

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 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£8.1m 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.

3.7 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 2.7 in 2021

46 from 47 in 2021
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
231144
Status
Registered
Governing document
ROYAL CHARTER OF 17 FEBRUARY 1970 AS AMENDED BY ORDERS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL DATED 18 NOVEMBER 2004 AND 16 NOVEMBER 2011
Companies House
Company number RC000557 · Active
Contact on the register
02075923900 · spck@spck.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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