CHURCHES' LEGISLATION ADVISORY SERVICE (CLAS)

Registered charity 256303 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE CHURCHES MAIN COMMITTEE

Advancing the charitable work of the churches by furthering their common interest in secular matters relating to their work other than educational work. Acting as a liaison body between the churches and Government.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE RELIGIOUS AND OTHER CHARITABLE WORK OF ITS MEMBERS BY PROMOTING THEIR COMMON INTERESTS IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE DELIVERY OF THEIR WORK.

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 · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts provided are an annual report and do not contain financial statements, so financial health metrics such as reserves or income cannot be assessed from this text. The document notes that the charity's work is supported by a secretariat supplied under contract and that there were no serious incidents during the reporting year.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Discloses 3 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.

• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Trustees · trustee networks

• Joanne Mary Anderton · trustee of 2 other charities
• Mary Macleod · trustee of 1 other charity
• Memuna Levan-Harris
• RICHARD CHAPMAN
• Rev DAVID STUART WALKER · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rev John Stanley Kenneth Arnold · trustee of 7 other charities
• Rev Paul Rochester

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

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

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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