SPIRIT OF PEACE

Registered charity 1122834 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

To advance the education of the public in the theory and practice of peacemaking and reconciliation.The promotion of equality and diversity for the public benefit.

Objects

A)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PEACEMAKING AND RECONCILIATIONB) THE PROMOTION OF EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED IN PRACTISE NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS ASIA ISRAEL PALESTINE

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Sevenoaks, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £13,078, with unrestricted funds at £2,406 and restricted funds at £10,672. The charity reported a net income of £3,315 for the year, driven by charitable activity donations exceeding expenditures. The trustees acknowledge responsibilities for keeping accounting records and preparing financial statements that give a true and fair view.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06339788 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• LANCASTER, Elliott Albert, Dr — director, appointed 13/01/2021on trustee list
• GOLDING, Julie — director, appointed 13/12/2019on trustee list
• OZANNE, Miriam Jane — director, appointed 14/08/2019on trustee list
• PAYMAN, Barbara Carol, Dr — director, appointed 23/03/2010on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Trustees · trustee networks

• DR BARBARA CAROL PAYMAN
• ELLIOTT ALBERT LANCASTER
• Julie Golding
• Miriam Ozanne
• Rev Heather Faith Serjeant

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

Operates in: City Of York · Gloucestershire · Hampshire · Israel · Kent · Occupied Palestinian Territories · Throughout London · West Sussex

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Beacon of Peace.

• Beacon of Peace income £657k
• SPIRIT OF LIFE CHURCH income £55k
• PEACE CHAPEL INTERNATIONAL income £78k
• PEACE EDUCATION MISSION income £34k
• CISV INTERNATIONAL PEACE FUND income £34k
• HGS INSPIRE income £8k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.