THE BRITISH TRUST FOR THE ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED THEOLOGICAL STUDY IN JERUSALEM

Registered charity 261410 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BRITISH TRUST FOR TANTUR

The trust makes grants in support of study courses at Tantur and organises events to build a community of alumni and other ecumenically supportive persons in the UK.

Objects

THE FURTHERANCE OF THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES OF THE ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED THEOLOGICAL STUDY IN JERUSALEM AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the trust reported a surplus of £37k for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total net assets increasing to £772,989. The trustees confirm that cash balances remain adequate to cover anticipated expenditure, although investment growth was limited due to market uncertainty. A planned pilgrimage was cancelled, resulting in unrecovered costs and a return of deposits to participants.

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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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Trustees · trustee networks

• Prof. Judith Margaret Lieuchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Julian Hills · trustee of 1 other charity
• Penelope Ann Brackley
• Rev Molly Georgina Boot · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Simon Leigh Goddard · trustee of 2 other charities
• Revd. Dr Janet Tollington
• Sara Elizabeth Ethna Connell
• The Most Reverend Bernard Longley · trustee of 6 other charities
• The Rt Revd Anne Elizabeth Hollinghurst
• The Rt Revd Jonathan GOODALL
• The Very Revd John Witcombe

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

Operates in: Israel · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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