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Registered charity · Croydon

The United Reformed Church (Southern Synod) Trust Limited

  • 9 trustees
  • Income £7.4m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 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 London, East Sussex, Kent, Surrey and more
Website
www.urcsouthern.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
The United Reformed Church (Southern Synod) Trust Limited
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£7.4m£5.0m
  • 2023£3.4m£4.3m
  • 2022£11m£3.7m
Earlier years
  • 2021£7.6m£7.5m
  • 2020£4.2m£2.6m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES AND USAGES OF THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) BY SUPPORTING THE WORK OF THE SOUTHERN SYNOD OF THAT CHURCH

Grants received

1 grant · £217,530 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £217,530

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £217,5302005-11-08
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.

6.4y median 5.5y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

11.6y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (6)

Portfolio (3)

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 9General 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 8Business services 1Health and social care 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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£7.4m latest income
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.

47.5 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.7 months · was 45.2 in 2020

8 from 8 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.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
282270
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/11/1980NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 24/11/2010AS AMENDED BY CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION ON CHANGE OF NAME DATED 08/12/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 01/01/2014
Companies House
Company number 01529484 · Active
Contact on the register
02086883730 · financeandtrust@urcsouthern.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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