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Registered charity · London

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star

Brotherhood of the Cross and Star is a registered charity (number 270034) based in London, governed by 16 trustees and chaired by HIS Holiness Olumba Olumba OBU. Latest income £543k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 16 trustees
  • Income £543k (2025)
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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
General Charitable Purposes, Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Religious Activities and 1 more
Where
Barnet, Southwark, Manchester City, Liverpool City and more
Website
www.bcs-uk.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Brotherhood of the Cross and Star(the) Limited
Registered
1976

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£543k£512k
  • 2024£455k£430k
  • 2023£372k£369k
Earlier years
  • 2022£399k£339k
  • 2021£351k£436k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 2%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(I) TO PROMOTE ADVANCE AND PROPAGATE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF THE BIBLE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND RELATED SUBJECTS. (II) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, SUFFERING AND DISTRESS AMONG PEOPLE PARTICULARLY AMONG CHILDREN AND THE AGED. (III) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION. (IV) TO CARRY OUT ANY OTHER PURPOSE OF A CHARITABLE NATURE BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.

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.

3y median 3y
average tenure
5y
longest tenure
0
trustees past 6 years
9.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (14)

Portfolio (2)

11
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 16The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 16General Charitable Purposes 15The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 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.

Dormant 11Property 3Education 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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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£543k latest income · income exceeded spending 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.

2.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months

5
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
270034
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 30TH MARCH 1976 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 3RD APRIL 1977 AND SPECIAL RESOLUTION PASSED 31ST JANUARY 2010 as amended on 27 May 2018
Companies House
Company number 01252161 · Active
Contact on the register
0207 3577555 · secretary.bot@bcs-uk.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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