THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES WITH ST PETER ISLINGTON

Registered charity 1134267 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ST JAMES' ISLINGTON

St James' is a parish church within the Church of England offering worship in the modern Anglican Catholic tradition. It holds Sunday and weekday services, runs a Sunday School and provides pastoral care to parishioners in need. The church and church hall are available to local community and support groups. Specific local and overseas charities are sponsored through fundraising.

Objects

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Latest income

£236k

Latest spending

£187k

Registered

2010

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a net cash surplus of £48,418 for the year ended December 31, 2025, driven by voluntary receipts, church activities, and investment income. The charity holds £95,038 in unrestricted cash and £245,450 in financial investments, with a policy to maintain six months of revenue costs in liquid reserves. Although a 2026 budget indicates a projected deficit, the trustees expect to achieve a cash surplus through grant funding and debt/creditor management.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: six months of expected revenue costs (reserves figure: £95k)

“The PCC will continue to ensure that liquid resources sufficient to meet six months of expected revenue costs are held in the unrestricted reserves and within the investment portfolio.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

Going concern: going-concern doubt noted (FY2024) → no going-concern doubt (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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.

Conflicting interests
Financial reserves policy and procedures
Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
Investing charity funds policy and procedures
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding policy and procedures
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Social media 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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2025

Volunteers: 35
Government income: £1,000 — grants £1,000 (1); under 1% of the £235,680 total gross income on the same return
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2024

Volunteers: 10
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/12/2023

Volunteers: 15
Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

Rev Helen Jane Sims-Williamschair
Anne Elizabeth BATCHELOR
Anneke Enid Joceline Pol
Edward Congreve Jenkyns · trustee of 1 other charity
Hilary Roden
Isabel Nisbet · trustee of 1 other charity
Jane Falcioni
Joanne Lisa Strickland
Kerri Allen
Susan Margaret Sorensen · trustee of 1 other charity
Victoria Bellamy

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

Operates in: Islington

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£236k	£187k
31/12/2024	£154k	£206k
31/12/2023	£211k	£298k
31/12/2022	£183k	£233k
31/12/2021	£341k	£372k

Common questions

Is THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES WITH ST PETER ISLINGTON financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity achieved a net cash surplus of £48,418 for the year ended December 31, 2025, driven by voluntary receipts, church activities, and investment income. The charity holds £95,038 in unrestricted cash and £245,450 in financial investments, with a policy to maintain six months of revenue costs in liquid reserves. Although a 2026 budget indicates a projected deficit, the trustees expect to achieve a cash surplus through grant funding and debt/creditor management. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES WITH ST PETER ISLINGTON?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES WITH ST PETER ISLINGTON as a grant recipient include CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEY.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
CHARITY OF RICHARD CLOUDESLEY	FY2022	£29k	Church Grants

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
PROJECT GIVING BACK	1	£444k
HOLLYHOCK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	1	£100k

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 ST JAMES, WESTMINSTER.

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES WITH ST PETER ISLINGTON	£236k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES, WESTMINSTER FY2025	£4.1m	—	—	below	—	no doubt
THE PCC OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT CLAPTON FY2025	£84k	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES PADDINGTON FY2025	£467k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES, ANSTON FY2025	£50k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JAMES, SUTTON, IN THE DIOCESE OF CHESTER FY2024	£90k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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