KESTON COLLEGE

Registered charity 314103 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4219796 · Wikipedia · also known as KESTON INSTITUTE

The study of religion in Communist and former Communist countries

Objects

TO PROMOTE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN RELIGION AND TO PROMOTE AND ENCOURAGE THE STUDY OF AND RESEARCH INTO RELIGION IN COMMUNIST STATES OR STATES WHICH HAVE BEEN COMMUNIST OR PRESENT OR FORMER TOTALITARIAN STATES.

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: Three Rivers, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves total £1,535,407, with £327,573 deemed freely available. The trustees consider these free reserves to be more than sufficient to cover twelve months of budgeted expenditure. The charity reports no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Wenn Townsend. 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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00991413

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.

• POOLE, Randall Allen, Professor — director, appointed 16/02/2026on trustee list
• ABRAHAM, Timothy Patrick — director, appointed 10/02/2025on trustee list
• HEIMANN, Mary Elizabeth, Professor — director, appointed 16/02/2024on trustee list
• DANIEL, Wallace, Dr — director, appointed 04/11/2023on trustee list
• ROBSON ELLIOT, Elisabeth Mary — director, appointed 04/05/2020not on trustee list
• CAMPBELL, Christopher — director, appointed 09/11/2019on trustee list
• HILLMAN, Kathy Ann Robinson, Professor — director, appointed 01/07/2012on trustee list
• CLEMENTS, Keith, The Revd Dr — director, appointed 11/12/2007on trustee list
• DENNEN, Xenia Violet — directoron trustee list
• HART, Michael John — secretary, appointed 01/10/2013

Official officers record.

Trustees · trustee networks

• XENIA VIOLET DENNENchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Campbell
• Dr Wallace Daniel
• Elisabeth Mary Robson Elliot
• PROFESSOR KATHY ANN ROBINSON HILLMAN
• Professor Mary Elizabeth Heimann
• Professor Randall Allen Poole
• THE REVD DR KEITH CLEMENTS
• Timothy Patrick Abraham · trustee of 6 other charities

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

Operates in: Russia · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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• ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH ON BANKING AND THE ECONOMY income £53k
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Side by side with its peers

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