GENERAL TRUST FUND OF THE CHURCH UNION

Registered charity 243535 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHURCH UNION

The Charity publishes an in-house magazine The Church Observer, the magazine "Together", sponsors a number of annual lectures, operates a Website, publishes books under its Tufton Books imprint and seeks to uphold Catholic doctrine, worship, order and discipline in the Church, by renewing and extending Catholic faith and practice in the Church of England and elsewhere.

Objects

A) TO DEFEND AND MAINTAIN UNIMPAIRED THE DOCTRINE DISCIPLINE AND POSITION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF CHRIST;B) TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF LITERATURE IN ALL BRANCHES OF THEOLOGY AND ETHICS, AND IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND NATURAL SCIENCES WHICH ARE CLOSELY RELATED TO RELIGION;(FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 7TH MAY 1934)

Area of benefit: UNRESTRICTED

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 · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net income of £20,192 for the year ended 31 December 2024, with unrestricted reserves standing at £1,294,383. The trustees confirm that these reserves represent several years of ongoing expenditure and are sufficient to maintain the charity's objectives. The organization is considered a going concern with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Father Darren Smith SSCchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• Claire Denston Epsom
• FATHER MARTIN ENNIS SSC · trustee of 1 other charity
• FATHER STEVEN KIRK
• Father David Benjamin Fisher · trustee of 3 other charities
• Fr Tom Davis
• MARY ELIZABETH MOORE · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD GARETH LLEWELYN MORGAN · trustee of 6 other charities
• Sandra Baiden · trustee of 1 other charity
• THE RIGHT REVD MARTYN JARRETT SSC

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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