LONDON SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY

Registered charity 312778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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.

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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.

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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

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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 THAMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.

• THAMES CHRISTIAN SCHOOL income £4.5m
• LYCEE INTERNATIONAL DE LONDRES income £13.9m
• THE AMERICAN SCHOOL IN LONDON EDUCATIONAL TRUST LTD income £59.1m
• LONDON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS STUDIES income £1.9m
• THE LONDON SCHOOL OF JEWISH STUDIES income £1.8m
• LONDON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL LTD income £1.6m

Side by side with its peers

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