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Registered charity · Chelmsford

The Kingdom Hall Trust

The Kingdom Hall Trust is a registered charity (number 275946) based in Chelmsford, governed by 7 trustees and chaired by Richard John Cook since 2016. Latest income £30m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 7 trustees
  • Income £30m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: Ravi Sharma.

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, Northern Ireland
Linked company
The Kingdom Hall Trust
Registered
1978

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£30m£31m
  • 2024£28m£32m
  • 2023£26m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£31m£25m
  • 2021£133m£27m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

A) TO PUBLICLY MAKE KNOWN THE KINGDOM OF JEHOVAH GOD UNDER CHRIST JESUS. B) TO PROMULGATE THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE AND INSTRUCT MEN AND WOMEN IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AND THE RIGHT LIVING IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. (SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

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.

6 trustees on the board

7.2y median 9y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

6
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 6

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 6

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together
  • 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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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£30.3m 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.

3.2 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 5.2 in 2021

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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
275946
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/07/1939AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 09/02/1951AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/06/1993AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 06/06/1994AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 20/06/1994AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 15/07/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 22 MAR 2016
Companies House
Company number 00355443 · Active
Contact on the register
02089062211
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
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