PREMIER CHRISTIAN MEDIA TRUST

Registered charity 287610 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHRISTIAN MEDIA TRUST, THE LUIS PALAU MISSION TO LONDON

Promotion of the Christian religion through radio broadcast, magazine publication, online activity and events. Support of all those in need through a Lifeline telephone service. Encouragement and support for the church in the use of new media. Campaigning on single-issues which are of concern to Christians and the church.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved an exceptional surplus of £1,255,047 for the year, driven by one-off receipts and grants. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £2,472,673, which the board believes is sufficient to continue current activities and meet the projected £2,716,000 cost of new studios.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01743091
• Trading subsidiary: PREMIER CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS LTD Companies House 02816074

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Premier Christian Media Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alastair (Sandy) Muirhead — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

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.

• KNIGHT, David Geoffrey — director, appointed 03/03/2026on trustee list
• MYERS, Nicholas Larkland Barnaby — director, appointed 30/09/2025on trustee list
• TEMPLEMAN, Jonathan — director, appointed 18/07/2023on trustee list
• LENZIE, Andrea, Lady — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• SPELMAN, Mark Gerald — director, appointed 18/10/2022on trustee list
• MBAKWE, Emmanuel Chichebe — director, appointed 23/02/2021on trustee list
• DUFF, Jillian Louise Calland, Rt Revd Dr — director, appointed 23/02/2021on trustee list
• POTTS, Graeme John — director, appointed 16/10/2019on trustee list
• MUIRHEAD, Sandy Alastair William — director, appointed 05/02/2018on trustee list
• DK LEGAL LTD — corporate secretary, appointed 12/07/2023

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.7 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (75% 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: 13.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/02/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/06/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Geoffrey Knight · trustee of 1 other charity
• Emmanuel Mbakwe
• Graeme Potts
• Jonathan Templeman · trustee of 1 other charity
• MARK GERALD SPELMAN
• Nicholas Larkland Barnaby Myers · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Jillian Louise Calland Duff
• Sandy Muirhead
• The Lady Andrea Lenzie

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with UNITED CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS LIMITED.

• UNITED CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS LIMITED income £10.3m
• GOVERNANCE MINISTRIES income £7.6m
• CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING NETWORK (UK) income £1.7m
• ST MARY'S CHRISTIAN WORKERS TRUST income £483k
• CENTRE CHURCH income £145k
• THE CHRISTIAN TRUST income £2.5m

Side by side with its peers

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