THE JOHNSON CLERGY ASSOCIATION (BIRMINGHAM) CIO

Registered charity 1207879 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE JOHNSON FUND

The Charity supports clergy, who, on account of age or infirmity, are no longer able to carry out their parochial work.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE TO SUPPORT THE SECULAR CLERGY OF THE ARCHDIOCESE WHO, ON ACCOUNT OF AGE, INFIRMITY OR PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCES, ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR PAROCHIAL WORK AND TO SUPPORT PRIESTS WHO ARE SUFFERING TEMPORARY ILLNESS OR HAVE HAD TO UNDERGO OPERATIONS BY WHATEVER MEANS THE TRUSTEES THINK FIT ("THE OBJECTS").

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 · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Stoke-on-Trent, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted funds increased to £23,343,396, with free reserves rising to £1,379,538. The trustees report that these free reserves represent over 24 months' grant payments, exceeding their policy target of eighteen to twenty-four months. The charity maintains a strong cash position and has prepared its financial statements on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Rice & Co Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2025) to "above" (FY2026).

Comparing this charity’s FY2025 and FY2026 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• 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

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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2026)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 5.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (30/07/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• James Anthony Colby
• Patricia Ann Deeley
• Rev JOHN YETHI RAJULU BATTHULA MA · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Peter James Madden
• Rev Philip Jarvis Griffin

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST.

• JOHNSON CHARITABLE TRUST income £1.1m
• THE ENGLISH CLERGY ASSOCIATION BENEFIT FUND income £46k
• THE CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM income £52k
• CHARITY FOR ST JOSEPH'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY (BRITISH REGION) income £2.2m
• MITCHAM LANE BAPTIST CHURCH CIO income £424k
• SECULAR CLERGY COMMON FUND income £1.7m

Side by side with its peers

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