CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH - TRUST PROPERTY HELD IN CONNECTION THEREWITH

Registered charity 245250 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The advancement of the Christian religion by making grants to assist the clergy, both active and retired and their dependants,in the major branches of the Christian church in the UK. The welfare of both poor members and widows of congregations of the Catholic Apostolic Church. The maintenance of remaining Catholic Apostolic Church buildings and their use for worship by other Churches as agreed.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL APPLY THE CLEAR INCOME OF THE CHARITY AND AT THEIR DISCRETION THE WHOLE OR PART OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CHARITY FOR RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES IN CONNEXION WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves decreased to £9,684,706 while total funds decreased to £14,301,620 due to significant expenditure on the Paddington Church repairs. The Trustees consider the reserves held to be adequate considering these high costs and confirm the Trust is a going concern with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by HaysMac LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~133.9 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (92% 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: 15.0% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• CHRISTOPHER BENJAMINchair
• Jonathan Francis Carter
• Matthew Samuel Kilmane de Ferrars
• PHILIP ARTHUR WHITTAKER
• THOMAS DAVID BALDWIN
• Trevor Benjamin

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

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH.

• THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH income £232k
• THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGY STIPEND TRUST income £78k
• THE ASSEMBLED CHURCH OF CHRIST TRUST income £59k
• CONGREGATIONAL AND GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST income £566k
• CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH (PADDINGTON) GENERAL PURPOSES FUND income £122k
• ECCLESIASTICAL PURPOSES IN CONNEXION WITH THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND income £32k

Side by side with its peers

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