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Finnish Church in London Charitable Trust

Finnish Church in London Charitable Trust is a registered charity (number 283594) based in London, governed by 4 trustees. Latest income £717k (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 4th October 2026.

  • 4 trustees
  • Income £717k (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
Education/training, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Accommodation/housing, Religious Activities and 2 more
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Website
lontoo.merimieskirkko.fi/the-finnish-church-in-london (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£717k£715k
  • 2024£641k£729k
  • 2023£730k£659k
Earlier years
  • 2022£524k£621k
  • 2021£522k£573k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE FINNISH LUTHERAN CHURCH (AS REPRESENTED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM BY THE FINNISH SEAMEN'S MISSION). THE ADVANCEMENT OF RELIGION IN SUCH MANNER AND SO LONG AS SHALL BE CHARITABLE BY LAW. FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSE OR CHARITABLE PURPOSES OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTION OR CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS OR CHARITABLE OBJECTS AS THE TRUSTEES MAY IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION THINK FIT OR BY DEED APPOINT.

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.

4 trustees on the board

6.2y median 6.5y
average tenure
11y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

6.7y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (4)

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company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Accommodation/housing 4Education/training 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 4

Gaps to watch

  • No commercial or business experience on the board
  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£641k 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.

0.3 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 3.1 in 2020

8 from 8 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
283594
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 28/09/1981AS AMENDED ON 05/08/1994AS AMENDED ON 14/03/2014
Contact on the register
02072371261 · marjaana.harkonen@merimieskirkko.fi
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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