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Registered charity · Atherstone

The General Conference of the NEW Church

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £1.5m (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th 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
Education/training, Religious Activities
Where
Throughout England, Scotland
Website
www.generalconference.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The General Conference of the NEW Church
Registered
1967

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£1.5m£1.5m
  • 2024£1.2m£1.4m
  • 2023£1.1m£1.1m
Earlier years
  • 2022£978k£1.0m
  • 2021£920k£937k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE FORMATION INTO A CORPORATE BODY UNDER THE ABOVE TITLE FOR THE PURPOSES OF RELIGION AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSES OF GAIN OF THE MINISTERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE VARIOUS SOCIETIES OF RECEIVERS OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE NEW CHURCH, SIGNIFIED BY THE NEW JERUSALEM IN THE APOCALYPSE OR REVELATION OF JOHN AS CONTAINED IN THE THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF THE HONOURABLE EMANUEL SWEDENBORG. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM)

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.

7 trustees on the board

2y median 1y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
5.1y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (7)

5
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 7Religious Activities 7

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 4Professional services 1

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across 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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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£1.5m 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.

69.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 120.0 in 2021

21 from 17 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
253206
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 29/01/1872AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/06/1954AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/07/1977AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/07/1988AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/07/1990AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/07/1999AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 03/07/2000AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 21/07/2003AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 26/07/2004AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 18/07/2005AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/07/2012AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 28 JUL 2016 as amended on 28 Jul 2021 as amended on 25 Jul 2024
Companies House
Company number 00006039 · Active
Contact on the register
01827712370 · enquiries@generalconference.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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