THE KINGDOM HALL TRUST

Registered charity 275946 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LONDON COMPANY OF KINGDOM WITNESSES · also registered in Scotland as SC046541 (OSCR)

To advance the Christian religion as practised by Jehovah's Witnesses by providing, maintaining, and at times acting as custodian trustee for places of worship in the United Kingdom.

Objects

A) TO PUBLICLY MAKE KNOWN THE KINGDOM OF JEHOVAH GOD UNDER CHRIST JESUS. B) TO PROMULGATE THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE AND INSTRUCT MEN AND WOMEN IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES AND THE RIGHT LIVING IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. (SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM FOR FURTHER DETAILS).

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.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £213,927,407, which the trustees confirm are in line with their policy of holding approximately six months of operational expenditure. The Trust reported a net deficit of £226,534 for the year, funded by voluntary donations and legacies, with no fundraising activities undertaken.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Ltd. 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
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00355443

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• WHITTAKER, Shaun Daniel — director, appointed 28/02/2025on trustee list
• ACHONU, Simon Uchechukwu — director, appointed 28/02/2025on trustee list
• SHARMA, Ravi — director, appointed 01/02/2024on trustee list
• CLINTON, Alan — director, appointed 03/12/2018on trustee list
• COOK, Richard — director, appointed 28/12/2016on trustee list
• COX, Jonathan — director, appointed 26/08/2015on trustee list
• WADE, Paul — director, appointed 20/11/2014on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

842 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (769 freehold); recorded price paid £9.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.2 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (04/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• RICHARD JOHN COOKchair
• Alan John Clinton
• JONATHAN COX
• PAUL TRACY WADE
• RAVI SHARMA
• Shaun Daniel Whittaker
• Simon Uchechukwu Achonu

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · 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 KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH LONDON.

• KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH LONDON income £143k
• KINGSGATE COMMUNITY CHURCH income £5.8m
• KINGDOM MINISTRIES UK income £131k
• WESTERN COUNTIES & SOUTH WALES EVANGELISATION TRUST income £755k
• KINGDOM FAITH CHURCH income £1.0m
• KINGDOM FAITH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL income £428k

Side by side with its peers

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