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Registered charity · Edinburgh

The Banner of Truth Trust

The Banner of Truth Trust is a registered charity (number 235652) based in Edinburgh, governed by 10 trustees and chaired by Rev Jeffrey Kingswood since 2015. Latest income £2.4m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Banner, Banner of Truth (Charity Commission)

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £2.4m (2025)
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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
Scotland
Website
www.banneroftruth.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1965

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£2.4m£2.5m
  • 2024£2.4m£2.5m
  • 2023£2.4m£2.5m
Earlier years
  • 2022£2.7m£2.1m
  • 2021£2.2m£1.9m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

THE PROMOTION, ADVANCEMENT AND DISSEMINATION TO ENHANCE THE BETTER KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN PERTICULAR THAT ASPECT OF THE SAID FAITH AS TAUGHT BY THE PROTESTANT REFORMERS AND ENGLISH PURITANS.

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.

7y median 7y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (6)

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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 10General Charitable Purposes 3Education/training 1The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 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.

Finance 3Arts and leisure 1

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.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£2.4m latest income · spending exceeded income 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.

8.8 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 12.5 in 2021

17 from 12 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
235652
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 1 JULY 1959, ORDERS OF THE CHARITY COMMISSIONERS DATED 18 APRIL 2005, AND 14 JUNE 2005.AS AMENDED ON 28 APR 2017AS AMENDED ON 08 NOV 2017
Contact on the register
01313377310 · info@banneroftruth.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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