The Governance RegisterEdition 2026 · Compiled 12th July 2026

Light Church

Registered charity 519135 Registered since 1987

Operates: Lancashire, Tanzania

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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

7.5y median 6y
average tenure
12y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

10.9y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (3)

Portfolio (1)

1
company-linked trustees

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

Other Charitable Purposes 1Religious Activities 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.

Business services 3Finance 2Professional services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

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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£178k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2024 and 2025

Related organisations iRelated organisationsTwo groups, both deterministic from public records. Related organisations share two or more trustees with this board - a real structural link, such as a subsidiary or sister charity. Connected through a shared trustee share exactly one person - a genuine connection, but not the same group. A board with no shared trustee at all may still appear here when it is active in the same charitable field.

Also active in the same field

Deterministic, from public records.

Contact

Websitelight.church
Emaildamian.broughton@danbro.co.uk
Phone07308 970 942
Address30 ST. MICHAELS ROAD, KIRKHAM, PRESTON, PR4 2TQ

Finances

£177,690 latest income

YearIncomeSpending
2021£250,320£191,022
2022£209,412£139,068
2023£206,978£145,862
2024£312,761£143,038
2025£177,690£156,725

What it does

What

Education/trainingOverseas Aid/famine ReliefReligious Activities

Who

Children/young PeopleElderly/old PeoplePeople Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial OriginThe General Public/mankind

How

Provides Other FinanceProvides Buildings/facilities/open SpaceProvides Services

Charitable objects

THE FURTHERANCE IN KIRKHAM OF THE RELIGIOUS AN OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH OF NORTH AMERICA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINES, DISCIPLINES AND USAGES OF THAT CHURCH FOR THE TIME BEING AS SET FORTH IN THE BOOK OF DISCIPLINES

Governing document: DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 28 JANUARY 1987 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 9 MARCH 2000 as amended on 09 May 2017

Trustees (4)

4trustees
64median age
0aged 70+

Connected charities (1)

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