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Registered charity · London

Essex Hall

Essex Hall is a registered charity (number 248442) based in London, governed by 8 trustees. Latest income £592k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 18th October 2026.

Also known as Essex Hall (INC), Essex Hall Incorporated, Essex Hall Trust (Charity Commission)

2 OBJECTSThe objects for which the Company is established are specifically restricted to: 2.1 the promotion of religion in accordance with the principles of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches; and2.2 such other object or...

  • 8 trustees
  • Income £592k (2025)
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About

What it does
Religious Activities
Where
City Of Westminster
Linked company
Essex Hall
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£592k£463k
  • 2024£568k£481k
  • 2023£414k£410k
Earlier years
  • 2022£446k£396k
  • 2021£558k£507k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

2 OBJECTSThe objects for which the Company is established are specifically restricted to: 2.1 the promotion of religion in accordance with the principles of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches; and2.2 such other object or objects, religious, educational or otherwise exclusively charitable, and in such manner in all respects as the Directors of the Company shall from time to time in their unfettered discretion decide.

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.

8 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

14.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (4)

7
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 8General Charitable Purposes 3The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 3Other 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.

Other services 9Professional services 4Health and social care 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£568k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

33.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 120.0 in 2020

2 from 2 in 2020
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.
82 days
Latest accounts filed after the due dateiFiled after the due dateDate the accounts were received minus the reporting due date, latest filed cycle, Charity Commission register.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
248442
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 AUGUST 1886. as amended on 20 May 2019 as amended on 23 Jul 2019
Companies House
Company number 00023132 · Active
Contact on the register
02072402384 · amason@unitarian.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 18th October 2026
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