THE CHURCHES FELLOWSHIP FOR PSYCHICAL AND SPIRITUAL STUDIES

Registered charity 233778 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C F P S S, THE CHURCHES FELLOWSHIP

The Churches' Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies exists to promote the study and the integration of psychical and spiritual experience within a Christian context. Founded in 1953, it continues to serve churches and individuals with many and varied backgrounds, experiences and needs.

Objects

TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND INVESTIGATION WITHIN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES OF PARANORMAL AND RELEVANT PHEMOMENA AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported an overall loss of £10,872 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total net assets decreasing to £235,719. The trustees maintain that the charity has adequate resources to continue as a going concern and aims to retain sufficient unrestricted funds to cover a year's running costs.

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

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 03/03/2025, 31 days after the 31/01/2025 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (09/06/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• VICTORIA JANE JEFFSchair
• Andrew John Constantine Cort
• Cherry Ann Simpkin · trustee of 5 other charities
• Eileen Mary Hughes
• IAN FORDYCE
• Judith Eleanor Harvey
• Mark Fox
• Paul Geoffrey Fisher
• REVD NEIL SETON BROADBENT
• Rev ANDREW JOHN FISHER
• Rev MARGARET MARY GILLEY · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Rose Maria Drew

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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