THE CORPORATION OF THE CHURCH HOUSE

Registered charity 213252 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CORPORATION OF THE CHURCH HOUSE

To own and maintain Church House for the use of the National Institutions of the Church of England.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity completed a major refurbishment programme, resulting in negative free reserves of £1.79m at the end of 2025. The trustees have secured a £2m financing facility with Charity Bank and rely on future commercial leasing and conference revenues to rebuild reserves and meet obligations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Buzzacott Audit LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Corporation of The Church House (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Stephanie Maurel — Secretary to the Corporation of The Church House (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

4 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Reported reserves equal ~0.0 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (68% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Stephen Barneychair
• Darren Noel Miller · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Justine Allain Chapman
• Helen Ainsworth
• Hywel Rees-Jones
• James Robert Bryer
• Josile Wenus Munro
• Keith William Cawdron · trustee of 1 other charity
• Robert David Zampetti · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending

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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 LUKE AND CHRIST CHURCH, CHELSEA.

• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST LUKE AND CHRIST CHURCH, CHELSEA income £931k
• Welcome Church income £2.3m
• PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £9.4m
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH PENNINGTON (MANCHESTER DIOCESE) income £214k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH, CHISLEHURST income £271k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF HOLY TRINITY, UPPER TOOTING income £277k

Side by side with its peers

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