LONDON SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

Registered charity 312778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q1710482 · Wikipedia · also known as LST, THE LONDON BIBLE COLLEGE

The provision of tertiary education and training (both undergraduate and postgraduate);Making grants to individuals to facilitate their education / training;Providing care / counselling services.

Objects

THE COMPANY’S OBJECT IS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, BY SUCH MEANS AS THE COMPANY MAY DETERMINE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:-(A) THE CONDUCT OF THE SCHOOL AND ESTABLISHMENT AND CONDUCT OF COLLEGES (IN ALL CASES) FOR THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF THE BIBLE, CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE AND RELATED SUBJECTS;(B) THE TRAINING OF MINISTERS OF RELIGION, CHRISTIAN TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND OTHER CHRISTIAN WORKERS;(C) THE SUPPORT OF THE SCHOOL, ITS STUDENTS AND ITS FORMER STUDENTS,WITH ALL SUCH ACTIVITIES BEING CARRIED ON IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH THE DOCTRINAL BASIS.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an operational loss of £1,271k for the year ended 31 August 2025, driven by falling donations and lower-than-budgeted investment performance. Despite this loss, the trustees confirm the charity remains a going concern, supported by free reserves of £2,813k which exceed their stated 20% target of annual unrestricted expenditure.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Social media 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)

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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 31/08/2022 (received 03/07/2023, 3 days after the 30/06/2023 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Mark J. Cartledge — Principal (source)
• David Hilborn — Academic Dean (source)
• Shivanthi Manickasingham — Director of Academic Services (source)
• Jonathan Mead — Director of Finance and Administration (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.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~8.2 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (79% 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: 3.5% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (17/09/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/05/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Professor Peter Stanley Oakeschair
• ALTON PATRICK BELL · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Naar M'fundisi-Holloway
• Lydia Rose Lee
• Margaret Marian Doyle
• PAUL SMITH · trustee of 1 other charity
• Paul Twelftree
• Professor Roy Scott Spurlock
• Revd Dr Jennifer Ruth Williams
• Richard Alexander Everingham Wallace

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

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LINDISFARNE COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY LTD.

• LINDISFARNE COLLEGE OF THEOLOGY LTD income £369k
• LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION income £474k
• KING'S COLLEGE LONDON THEOLOGICAL TRUST income £152k
• LONDON EDUCATION TRUST income £231k
• THE SOCIETY FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PHILOSOPHICAL ENQUIRY AND REFLECTION IN EDUCATION income £266k
• WESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL CENTRE income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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