THE JERUSALEM BISHOPRIC FUND

Registered charity 1124343 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity was established to provide an episcopal endowment fund for the Jerusalem Bishopric. The area of benefit was extended to include the rest of the Province of Jerusalem & the Middle East and again in 2020 to include the Province of Alexandria. In 2015 it acquired 2 endowments; Revd Stephen Campbell Charity and The Mission Trust Ltd Charitable Gift, and in 2021 the Egypt Bishopric Fund.

Objects

THE USE AND BENEFIT OF SUCH BISHOP FOR THE TIME BEING OR PARTLY INTO THE HANDS OR FOR THE USE OF THE SAID BISHOP FOR HE TIME BEING AND PARTLY IN FOR OR TOWARDS THE ENDOWMENT OR ADVANCEMENT GENERALLY OF THE SAID BISHOPRICK OR FOR OR TOWARDS ANY OBJECT OR PURPOSE CONNECTED THEREWITH OR WHOLLY IN FOR OR TOWARDS SUCH ENDOWMENT OR ADVANCEMENT OR FOR OR TOWARDS ANY SUCH OBJECT OR PURPOSE AS AFORESAID.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS.

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: Waverley, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds decreased to £2,143,313 from £2,237,160 in the prior year, driven by a net loss on investments of £95,318. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue its operations for the foreseeable future and consider the current level of reserves to be prudent for supporting charitable objectives.

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 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
• 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting 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)

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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 30/06/2024 (received 17/05/2025, 17 days after the 30/04/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev David Longechair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Catherine Mary Dawkins · trustee of 4 other charities
• Catriona Hannah Laing · trustee of 4 other charities
• DAVID ALAN WRIGHT OBE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr CLARE AMOS · trustee of 3 other charities
• Dr James Roberts
• JOHN MULLIN CLARK · trustee of 6 other charities
• Rev Dr Alastair James Kirk · trustee of 3 other charities
• THE JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION TRUST · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Right Reverend Anthony James BALL · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Cyprus · Egypt · Iran · Israel

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE JERUSALEM AND THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH ASSOCIATION.

• THE JERUSALEM AND THE MIDDLE EAST CHURCH ASSOCIATION income £268k
• BRITISH FRIENDS OF THE BIBLE LANDS MUSEUM, JERUSALEM income £1.3m
• THE OVERSEAS BISHOPRICS' FUND income £526k
• THE JERUSALEM FOUNDATION income £5.3m
• THE EXEMPLAR TRUST income £248k
• BACK TO JERUSALEM UK income £772k

Side by side with its peers

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