CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY

Registered charity 1007820 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C P A S

CPAS seeks to advance the Christian gospel by working with lay and ordained leaders in (mainly Anglican) churches, offering: training and conferences, residential holidays for children and young people, appointment of incumbents to Anglican parishes, resources, consultancy and advice, and grants (for those in training for Anglican ordination).

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL BY (I) PROVIDING HUMAN AND MATERIAL RESOURCES TO ANGLICAN PARISHES AND CHURCHES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND IN PARTICULAR IN ENGLAND,WALES,SCOTLAND AND IRELAND, IN ORDER TO ENCOURAGE AND INCREASE THEIR EFFECTIVENESS AS WORSHIPPING COMMUNITIES COMMITTED TO NURTURE,TRAINING,EVANGELISM,GROWTH AND SERVICE AND SEEKING TO GLORIFY GOD WORKING UNDER THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF SCRIPTURE AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROTESTANT AND EVANGELICAL DOCTRINES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS SET FORTH IN THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER AND THE THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES OF RELIGION READ IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SOCIETY'S BASIS OF FAITH DATED 27TH. FEBRUARY 1990; AND (II) EDUCATING YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

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.

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

Registered contact address: Coventry, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £364,000 for the year ended 30 April 2025, with total unrestricted reserves decreasing to £8,754,000. Per the trustees' report, the charity holds reserves of £7,582,000 (excluding fixed assets), which are above the stated policy target of approximately £4,518,000. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue operations for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Hazlewoods 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
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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 02673220

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Jon Scamman — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Val Floy — Director of Operations and Finance (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.

• PORTER, James Richard — director, appointed 29/01/2026on trustee list
• CHAPMAN, Mark — director, appointed 11/11/2025on trustee list
• LUI, Sarah Ruth — director, appointed 13/11/2024on trustee list
• HOBBS, Edward Quincey, Reverend — director, appointed 24/09/2024on trustee list
• ROSS, Vernon — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• EDWARDS, Dorothea Violet — director, appointed 20/09/2024on trustee list
• LEE, Catrin Helen — director, appointed 16/05/2024on trustee list
• ROBBIE, Amanda Catherine — director, appointed 16/05/2024on trustee list
• BUSHYAGER, Ruth Kathleen Frances, Rt Rev — director, appointed 26/01/2023on trustee list
• MATHOLE, Paul Mark, Reverend — director, appointed 23/05/2022on trustee list
• SCRASE-FIELD, Edward Fraser Austin Longmer, Rev Dr — director, appointed 23/05/2022on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

2 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £938k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~23.7 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.1% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt. Rev Ruth Kathleen Frances Bushyagerchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Amanda Catherine Turtle Robbie
• Catrin Helen Lee
• Mark Raymond Lovell Chapman · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev DOROTHEA VIOLET EDWARDS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Edward Fraser Austin Longmer Scrase-Field · trustee of 3 other charities
• Rev Edward Quincey Hobbs · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev James Richard Porter
• Rev Paul Mark Mathole
• Rev VERNON ROSS · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Ireland · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Side by side with its peers

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