Registered charity · London

The General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches

8 trustees
Income £863k (2025)

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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

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

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About

What it does: Religious Activities
Where: Throughout England And Wales, Scotland
Website: www.unitarian.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered: 1967

Income and spending

YearIncomeSpending
2025£863k£1.2m
2024£1.4m£1.5m
2023£1.3m£1.3m

Earlier years

2022£1.1m£1.3m
2021£889k£1.1m

Charitable objects

TO PROMOTE A FREE AND INQUIRING RELIGION THROUGH THE WORSHIP OF GOD AND THE CELEBRATION OF LIFE; THE SERVICE OF HUMANITY AND RESPECT FOR ALL CREATION; AND THE UPHOLDING OF THE LIBERAL CHRISTIAN TRADITION.

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

1.5y median 1y

average tenure

longest tenure

trustees past 6 years

3.5y

average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (1)

Sarah Benfield since 2023

Portfolio (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 2Accommodation/housing 1Education/training 1Other Charitable Purposes 1

Gaps to watch

No commercial or business experience on 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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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£863k 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.

35.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 37.6 in 2021

11 from 20 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: 250788
Status: Registered
Governing document: CONSTITUTION DATED 1928 AS AMENDED 04/1954,1964, 1971, 1972, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 19/04/ 2001, 06/04/ 2005, 12/11/ 2005, 17/04/2011, 15/4/2014 AS AMENDED ON 01 APR 2016 as amended on 07 Apr 2018 as amended on 05 Apr 2023 as amended on 14 Apr 2025
Contact on the register: 02072402384 · info@unitarian.org.uk
Edition: Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels: Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.

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