KIRBY LAING CENTRE FOR PUBLIC THEOLOGY IN CAMBRIDGE

Registered charity 1191741 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KIRBY LAING INSTITUTE FOR CHRISTIAN ETHICS

KLC nurtures research in evangelical Christian public theology. KLC disseminates its research through public lectures, seminars, conferences, newsletters and the publication of academic papers, articles and books, the maintenance of a website, and the appropriate use of social media, etc. It offers grants to postgraduate students and provides a research community for scholars.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO ADVANCE THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN RELIGION, IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT LIMITATION) THROUGH FOSTERING AND NURTURING CHRISTIAN SCHOLARSHIP IN PUBLIC THEOLOGY AND ETHICS THAT IS OPEN TO AND ENGAGING WITH SOCIETY AS A WHOLE, THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY OF CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS, AND THROUGH PUBLISHING RESEARCH.

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit, resulting in unrestricted funds falling to a negative balance of £15,558. The trustees attribute this to delays in anticipated grants and note that financial control processes required improvement. However, the independent examiner confirmed no material matters came to their attention that would cause concern about the accounts.

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 4 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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

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Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTHONY KEITH BARRONchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• DAVID MARTIN JAMES BALL
• Dr Craig Gerald Bartholomew
• Dr Rainer Behrens
• Elizabeth Brooks Weber
• Karen Joan Harding
• Kyle Redel
• Rev Andrew Philip Campbell
• Sarah Elizabeth Normann

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with KINGDOM APOSTOLIC EMPOWERMENT CENTRE.

• KINGDOM APOSTOLIC EMPOWERMENT CENTRE income £155k
• ST LUKE'S COLLEGE FOUNDATION income £224k
• THE MARGARET BEAUFORT INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY income £499k
• CLC INTERNATIONAL (UK) income £130k
• COUNCIL FOR BRITISH RESEARCH IN THE LEVANT income £766k
• King's Community Church, Lancaster income £111k

Side by side with its peers

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