THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST

Registered charity 235652 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BANNER, BANNER OF TRUTH · also registered in Scotland as SC038435 (OSCR)

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Objects

THE PROMOTION, ADVANCEMENT AND DISSEMINATION TO ENHANCE THE BETTER KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH AND IN PERTICULAR THAT ASPECT OF THE SAID FAITH AS TAUGHT BY THE PROTESTANT REFORMERS AND ENGLISH PURITANS.

Area of benefit: ANY PART OF THE WORLD.

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of Edinburgh, Scotland (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity realized a loss of £103,759 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total funds. The trustees consider the current level of free reserves to be adequate to meet operational costs in the coming year, supported by a stated policy of maintaining sufficient cash for one year of operating costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Whitelaw Wells. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £80,001 - £90,000 (FY2024) to £100,001 - £110,000 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• 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
• 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

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2023 (received 05/06/2024, 126 days after the 31/01/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 25/05/2023, 114 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 27/04/2022, 86 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public-sector contracts awarded

From the official Contracts Finder and Find a Tender notices (supplier matched by exact registered name). Contract income is distinct from grants.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~8.8 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (91% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/01/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev JEFFREY KINGSWOODchair
• David Campbell · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr David Whitla
• Dr Donald John MacLean · trustee of 5 other charities
• Dr ROBERT STRIVENS · trustee of 3 other charities
• REVEREND IAIN HAMISH MURRAY · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Andrew Young
• Rev MARK GARDINER JOHNSTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Warren Peel · trustee of 1 other charity
• THOMAS EARL RICHWINE

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

Operates in: Scotland

Income and spending

Common questions

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Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with DO-IT TRUST.

• DO-IT TRUST income £241k
• GREAT PRIORY OF THE ORDER OF THE TEMPLE FUND OF BENEVOLENCE income £36k
• NEW WINE TRUST income £4.4m
• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k
• THE KASNER CHARITABLE TRUST income £487k
• THE M Y A CHARITABLE TRUST income £88k

Side by side with its peers

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