THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR WITH ST. ALPHEGE AND ST. JUDE, SOUTHWARK

Registered charity 1132726 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Worship, Teaching, Education, Social, support for those in need, pastoral care,

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£554k

Latest spending

£388k

Registered

2009

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year, with total income of £350,297 exceeding total expenditure of £327,075. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £186,349 are sufficient to cover 24 weeks of unrestricted expenditure, which exceeds their stated policy target of 13 weeks. The auditor issued an unqualified opinion and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: 13 weeks’ unrestricted expenditure (held: £186k)

“St George the Martyr has a reserves policy, to ensure that there are resources (net current assets) to cover 13 weeks’ unrestricted expenditure.” — page 7

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Payment made to the Diocese of Southwark in the form of a contribution to the Parish Support Fund.

“The church is part of the Church of England and payment is made to the Diocese of Southwark in the form of a contribution to the Parish Support Fund. There is no other organisation or individual who is considered to be a related party of the Church.” — page 25

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

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

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

Total income

£590k

Total spending

£388k

Cost of raising funds

£50k

Reserves (reported)

£276k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~8.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 8.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Fr Benjamin Bellchair · trustee of 2 other charities
Frida Kah
James Alexander McTaggart Blythe
Riaz Gill
SIOBHAN AARONS
Sarah Kawesa
Sophie Brightwell
Stephen David Shanahan
Tatiana Timon

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

Operates in: Southwark

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£554k	£388k
31/12/2024	£350k	£327k
31/12/2023	£543k	£516k
31/12/2022	£473k	£450k
31/12/2021	£421k	£404k

Common questions

Is THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR WITH ST. ALPHEGE AND ST. JUDE, SOUTHWARK financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus for the year, with total income of £350,297 exceeding total expenditure of £327,075. The trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves of £186,349 are sufficient to cover 24 weeks of unrestricted expenditure, which exceeds their stated policy target of 13 weeks. The auditor issued an unqualified opinion and confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Azets Audit Services.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
The National Lottery Community Fund	11/06/2021	£3k	Community Advice Centre
UK government	29/07/2020	£10k	Coronavirus Community Support Fund
The National Lottery Heritage Fund	15/06/2016	£255k	"Parapet and stonework repairs, enabling internal changes to support new heritage and community engagement programmes"

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALDINGBOURNE BARNHAM AND EASTERGATE.

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALDINGBOURNE BARNHAM AND EASTERGATE income £163k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, RUDGWICK income £269k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, BEDDINGTON income £151k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, CAMBERLEY income £564k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREWS SOUTHGATE income £204k
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY'S KINGS WORTHY income £191k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR WITH ST. ALPHEGE AND ST. JUDE, SOUTHWARK	£554k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ALDINGBOURNE BARNHAM AND EASTERGATE FY2025	£163k	—	within	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, RUDGWICK FY2025	£269k	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST MARY, BEDDINGTON FY2025	£151k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST PAULS, CAMBERLEY FY2024	£564k	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST ANDREWS SOUTHGATE FY2024	£204k	—	above	—	no doubt

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