HILLSONG CHURCH LONDON

Registered charity 1120355 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC051872 (OSCR)

THE PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVES OF HILLSONG CHURCH LONDON, AS SET IN OUR CONSTITUTION, IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY THE PRONOUNCEMENT OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the group reported a net deficit of £265,545 for the year ended 31 December 2024, a significant improvement from the restated deficit of £633,411 in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,648,502, which is below the stated policy target of holding cash equal to three months of staffing costs and debt repayments, though the trustees consider this acceptable during the current financial recovery strategy. The trustees confirm that reserves remain adequate to settle liabilities as they fall due and that the charity can continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Hacker Young. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 05487537
• Trading subsidiary: COMMUNITY VENUES UK LIMITED Companies House 14979410

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Hillsong (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Nicola Douglass — Lead Pastor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WILLIAMS, Graham — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• ABHAYARATNA, Angel Mythili — director, appointed 09/12/2025on trustee list
• OBI, Udonna — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• OKEKE, Chiamaka — director, appointed 24/09/2020on trustee list
• DACRE, Russell Barclay — director, appointed 01/06/2015not on trustee list
• WHITEWOOD, David Stephen — director, appointed 01/06/2015on trustee list
• SPIES, Adam Peter — secretary, appointed 27/03/2024

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

10 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (6 freehold); recorded price paid £10.2m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~6.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (87% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (26/07/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Russ Dacrechair
• Angel Abhayaratna
• CHIAMAKA OKEKE
• David Stephen Whitewood
• Graham Williams
• UDONNA OBI

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Birmingham City · Italy · Kent · Liverpool City · Newcastle Upon Tyne City · Oxfordshire · Scotland · Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Charities like this

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• CHINESE CHURCH IN LONDON income £2.2m
• THE LONDON FULL GOSPEL CENTRAL CHURCH income £974k
• SELSDON BAPTIST CHURCH income £272k
• HIS CHURCH - LONDON income £174k
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Side by side with its peers

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