FORWARD IN FAITH

Registered charity 1057246 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q3078710 · Wikipedia

The Charity supports The Society, under the patronage of St Wilfrid and St Hilda, as an ecclesial structure with a ministry and sacraments in which the faithful can have confidence, so that they can flourish within the life and structures of the Church of England. It provides advice and support to The Society's bishops, parishes, clergy and laity, and to the Catholic Group in General Synod.

Objects

THE ORGANISATION IS ESTABLISHED TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION BY PROMOTING THE SPREAD OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRADITIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF THE HISTORIC APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION, THE MINISTRY OF BISHOPS AND PRIESTS AND FULL ECCLESIAL COMMUNION

Area of benefit: ENGLAND

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: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves stood at £1,046,253 as of 31 December 2025, representing several years of expenditure. The Trustees note that income from legacies cannot be relied upon and that further work is required to establish a financially sustainable budget for the Charity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~26.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.1% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rt Rev Paul Thomaschair
• Christopher Roy Daubney · trustee of 1 other charity
• Christopher Swift
• Fr Mark North SSC · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary Snape
• Rev Daniel Thomas Howard
• Rev Kyle Gillies McNeil · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Paul Hutchins · trustee of 4 other charities
• Rev Paul John Benfield
• Rt Rev Luke Thomas Irvine-Capel
• Sir Richard John Mantle OBE DL · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

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 THE FORWARD TRUST.

• THE FORWARD TRUST income £44.4m
• FAITH IN ACTION income £150k
• 24-7 PRAYER income £5.3m
• TRUST PROPERTY ADMINISTERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE RELIGIOUS OF MARY IMMACULATE income £652k
• THE MAURICE AND HILDA LAING CHARITABLE TRUST income £692k
• FAITH TRUTH & HOPE income £913k

Side by side with its peers

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