GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF THYATEIRA AND GREAT BRITAIN

Registered charity 243715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q2860071 · Wikipedia · also known as ARCHDIOCESE OF THYATEIRA AND GREAT BRITAIN TRUST, GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF THYATEIRA & GR BRITAIN

Promotion of the Greek Orthodox faith,Advocates the establishment of day schools,Helps in the training of new pastors, teachers and cantors in the local parishes and institutions

Objects

EMOLUMENTS FOR THE METROPOLITAN OF THYATEIRA. UPKEEP OF RESIDENCE OF THE METROPOLITAN OF THYATEIRA. TRAVELLING EXPENSES INCURRED IN DISCHARGE OF HIS SPIRITUAL DUTIES BY THE METROPOLITAN OF THYATEIRA, PAYMENT OF WAGES OF THE STAFF AND OTHER PROPER EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE METROPOLIS OF THYATEIRA. RESIDUE TO SUCH RELIGIOUS EDUCATIONAL OF CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH. (SEE CLAUSE 3 OF TRUST DEED FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND FOREIGN

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 · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £3,829,606, an increase from the previous year. The trustees maintain a policy of holding minimum reserves equivalent to six months of expenditure and believe the current level is adequate to meet obligations. The charity reported a net income surplus of £162,643 for the year, supported primarily by donations and legacies.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Nicholas Peters & Co Ltd. 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.

• Complaints 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
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting 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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 11/01/2024, 72 days after the 31/10/2023 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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £330k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~39.8 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (95% 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: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Archbishop Nikitas Liouliaschair · trustee of 19 other charities
• Antonios Prodromou Yerolemou
• Antony Panayiotis Antoniou · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christos Andreas Karaolis · trustee of 4 other charities
• Costas Photios Kleanthous · trustee of 1 other charity
• DEMETRIOS NICOLAS DEMETRIOU · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dionysios Andreas Liveras
• Epaminondas George Embiricos
• George Stephanos Michael · trustee of 2 other charities
• Georgios Papagiannopoulos
• Jason Theo George CHARALAMBOUS
• Konstantinos Kavvadas
• Leonidas Lazari · trustee of 1 other charity
• Louis Christopher Loizou
• Marios Georgiou Minaides · trustee of 1 other charity
• Nikolaos Skinitis
• Panayiotis Demetri
• Sotira Elene Scoufarides

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

Operates in: Greece · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Archbishop Nikitas Lioulias — trustee here and at THE GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY THE TWELVE APOSTLES HERTFORDSHIRE TRUST
• Leonidas Lazari — trustee here and at CHRISTOS LAZARI FOUNDATION

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

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

Funders of similar charities

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 ST ANARGYRE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH TRUST.

• ST ANARGYRE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH TRUST income £120k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF BIRMINGHAM income £298k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ST KATHERINE income £146k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF ST GEORGE THE MARTYR income £292k
• GREEK ORTHODOX COMMUNITY OF READING income £42k
• ST ELEFTHERIOS income £172k

Side by side with its peers

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