BANNER OF TRUTH BUILDING FUND

Registered charity 248800 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as "BANNER OF TRUTH BUILDING FUND"

Provison of buildings

Objects

"THE ACQUISITION MAINTENANCE FURNISHING AND EQUIPPING OF A BUILDING AS A CENTRE FOR THE CARITABLE ACTIVITIEIS OF THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST" AND AS SPECIFICALLY FURTHER DECLARED BY THE TRUST DEED.

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net surplus of £146,540 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total unrestricted funds of £7,864,513. However, the Trustees explicitly note that current reserve levels are not considered adequate for the needs of the next 2-5 years, particularly regarding plans to consolidate Edinburgh properties and build new facilities. To address this, the Trustees are considering actions including a donor campaign to raise necessary finance.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Whitelaw Wells. 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 7.1 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.0%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Campbell · trustee of 1 other charity
• 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 · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev MARK GARDINER JOHNSTON · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Warren Peel · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST.

• THE BANNER OF TRUTH TRUST income £2.4m
• TONBRIDGE & MALLING MUSLIM COMMUNITY TRUST income £109k
• LHA LONDON LTD income £19.8m
• NEW PRODUCERS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY income £275k
• TAFF BARGOED DEVELOPMENT TRUST LIMITED income £152k
• FULL FACT income £2.9m

Side by side with its peers

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