THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR SUDAN & SOUTH SUDAN

Registered charity 1180881 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SCA, THE SUDAN CHURCH ASSOCIATION

Provision of financial and other support to the Episcopal Church of Sudan and the Episcopal Church of South Sudan to enable to address effectively the needs (both spiritual and material) of the people they serve. This is mostly done through the provision of grants, advice and support of personnel.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE, FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT:-4.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IN THE PROVINCES OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SUDAN AND THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SOUTH SUDAN; AND4.2. THE RELIEF OF POVERTY IN SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN.

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

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Received the assets of THE SUDAN CHURCH ASSOCIATION (charity 290607) — merger registered 19/12/2019.

Source: Charity Commission register of merged charities (OGL v3.0).

Latest income

£300k

Latest spending

£281k

Registered

2018

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £648,019, while the charity reported a deficit on general funds of £61,000 before investment gains. The trustees note that reserves have been deliberately built up to support core costs and anticipate gradually reducing them to a nominal level over the next twenty years as the partner churches progress toward self-support.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: gradually reduced to a nominal level over the next twenty years (reserves figure: £648k)

“It is anticipated that this will continue to be the case with the reserves gradually reduced to a nominal level over the next twenty years.”

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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.

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
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.

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

Volunteers: 2
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Volunteers: 1
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Volunteers: 3
Grant-making is its main activity

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

Register events

Received assets from another charity (19/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Rev IAN MALCOLM WALLACEchair
Dr Tabita Botros Teia Shokai
JOANNA FRANCES HUNT
JOHN ROBERT POOLE
MARY MARGARET BROOKS · trustee of 1 other charity
Pauline Jean Walker · trustee of 1 other charity
REVD IAN WOODWARD
Rev ANDREW CHARLES WHEELER · trustee of 2 other charities
Rev Graham Charles Buttanshaw · trustee of 1 other charity
Rev JOANNA UDAL
TIMOTHY JOHN FLATMAN · trustee of 1 other charity
Wendy Elizabeth Fry

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

Operates in: South Sudan · Sudan

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2025	£300k	£281k
31/12/2024	£270k	£227k
31/12/2023	£356k	£431k
31/12/2022	£203k	£220k
31/12/2021	£353k	£169k

Common questions

Is THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR SUDAN & SOUTH SUDAN financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves stood at £648,019, while the charity reported a deficit on general funds of £61,000 before investment gains. The trustees note that reserves have been deliberately built up to support core costs and anticipate gradually reducing them to a nominal level over the next twenty years as the partner churches progress toward self-support. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Who funds THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR SUDAN & SOUTH SUDAN?

Funders whose own accounts filings name THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR SUDAN & SOUTH SUDAN as a grant recipient include THE A S CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE A S CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£3k
THE A S CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	amount not stated

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Episcopal Churches of South Sudan and Sudan University Partnership.

Episcopal Churches of South Sudan and Sudan University Partnership income £110k
THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IN SOUTHERN AFRICA TRUST income £167k
AFRICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK AND EIRE) income £47k
SOUTH AFRICAN CONGREGATION income £675k
THE PARISH OF STANLEY AND SOUTH MOOR income £46k
AID TO BURKINA income £134k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
THE CHURCH ASSOCIATION FOR SUDAN & SOUTH SUDAN	£300k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
Episcopal Churches of South Sudan and Sudan University Partnership FY2025	£110k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
THE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP IN SOUTHERN AFRICA TRUST FY2025	£167k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
AFRICA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP (UK AND EIRE) FY2025	£47k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SOUTH AFRICAN CONGREGATION FY2025	£675k	—	—	above	—	no doubt
THE PARISH OF STANLEY AND SOUTH MOOR FY2025	£46k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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