The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 30th August 2026

Essex Hall

Registered charity 248442 Registered since 1967

Operates: City Of Westminster

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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.

9 trustees on the board

5.6y median 6y
average tenure
10y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

Portfolio (5)

8
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 9General 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 10Professional services 5Health 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.

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.

Connected through a shared trustee

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Emailamason@unitarian.org.uk
Phone02072402384
AddressESSEX HALL, 1-6 ESSEX STREET, LONDON, WC2R 3HY

Finances

£592,082 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£557,676£507,302
2022£445,650£395,508
2023£413,835£409,657
2024£568,328£481,399
2025£592,082£462,661

What it does

What

Religious Activities

Who

Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies

How

Makes Grants To OrganisationsProvides Buildings/facilities/open Space

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.

Governing document: MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 5 AUGUST 1886. as amended on 20 May 2019 as amended on 23 Jul 2019

Trustees (9)

9trustees
69median age
4aged 70+

Linked company (Companies House)

Essex Hall · 00023132 · Active

PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital) · incorporated 13/09/1886

3 governing document(s) held from Companies House.

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