PRISON FELLOWSHIP

Registered charity 1102254 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Prison Fellowship aims to support prisoners by coming alongside them and supporting them to change. We offer our victim awareness course (Sycamore Tree), family contact programme (Angel Tree) and Letter Writing services to all who request them, regardless of their beliefs. We do this through our network of volunteer members and have over 2500 volunteers throughout England and Wales.

Objects

FOR THE FURTHERANCE OF EDUCATION AMONGST PEOPLE PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY SITUATED IN PRISONS, DETENTION CENTRES, YOUNG OFFENDERS' INSTITUTIONS AND OTHER SUCH PLACES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION CLASSES GENERALLY, THE TEACHING OF CHRISTIAN VALUES, AND THE RUNNING OF PROGRAMMES INTENDING TO CHANGE PRISONERS' BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDES, TO WORK OUTSIDE PRISON WITH RELEASED OFFENDERS AND PRISONERS' FAMILIES INCLUDING PRACTICAL SUPPORT FOR THOSE FAMILIES, AND TO TRAIN VOLUNTEERS TO PROVIDE SUCH EDUCATION AND SUPPORT AS MENTIONED ABOVE.

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: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income surplus of £65,413 for the year ended 31 March 2025, compared to a net expenditure in the prior year. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves increased to £649,070, and the organization is well placed to fulfil its plans with no major financial risks foreseen for the next financial year.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Griffin Stone Moscrop & Co. 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Prison Fellowship (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~12.3 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.9% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (10/08/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Francis Travers Harlockchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Desmond Brown · trustee of 1 other charity
• Philip Michael Inman Miller
• Rev Kathleen Mavis Kirby
• Richard Norridge
• Sandra Lorraine Wallace
• Timothy Wright

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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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 PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP.

• PARTNERS OF PRISONERS AND FAMILIES SUPPORT GROUP income £2.1m
• PRISONERS' ADVICE SERVICE income £625k
• SUSSEX PRISONERS' FAMILIES income £263k
• PHILOSOPHY IN PRISON income £26k
• FRIENDS OF ERLESTOKE PRISON income £55k
• PRISON LINK income £31k

Side by side with its peers

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