CHURCH SOCIETY

Registered charity 249574 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Upholding the doctrine of the Church of England and assisting clergy, parishes, schools and the like in their work and mission.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net loss of £38,299 for the year ended 31 December 2025, resulting in a decrease in unrestricted reserves. The trustees confirm that the remaining general reserves of £485,941 are within the stated policy of sufficient reserves to cover operations for three years ahead.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Xeinadin Audit Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

14 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (10 freehold); recorded price paid £1.7m. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (14/12/2019) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Amanda Robbie
• REVEREND DOCTOR JAMES THOMAS HUGHES · trustee of 8 other charities
• Rev Andrew Paul John Towner · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev CHRISTOPHER RICHARD HARGAVE KILGOUR
• Rev Christopher Pierce
• Rev Dr Robert Speight Munro · trustee of 2 other charities
• Rev Edward John Gerald Keene · trustee of 6 other charities
• Rev Michael Hayden
• Rev Nigel Atkinson
• Rev Stephen Short
• The Reverend Doctor Jason David Ward · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ST PETER AND ST CEDD, CHELMSFORD.

• CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ST PETER AND ST CEDD, CHELMSFORD income £1.3m
• KINGS CROSS CHURCH income £2.1m
• PORTSMOUTH DIOCESAN BOARD OF FINANCE income £9.4m
• CHRISTCHURCH BAPTIST CHURCH income £410k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CHURT AND RUSHMOOR income £128k
• THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF STOKE GIFFORD income £1.8m

Side by side with its peers

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