SOCIETY OF SAINT FRANCIS CENTRAL FUND

Registered charity 280238 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Defrays the costs of the Central Administration of the SSF & the expenses of its Ministers' General & First Order General Secretaries.Through its Development Fund, makes grants for the work of the Society of St Francis throughout the world.Through its Legacy Fund funds capital projects in Europe, provides long term support of elderly First Order Brothers & of SSF's work throughout the world.

Causes: Education/training · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

Latest income

£155k

Latest spending

£156k

Registered

1980

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £125,384 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a loss on investment revaluation of £124,871. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,577,130 and designated reserves of £1,377,252, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months.

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 3 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

Jane Helen Gillbechair
Kenneth E Norian
MICHAEL HART
Rev Pat Mossop
Richard William Peaden
The Rt Revd Christopher Thomas James Chessun · trustee of 10 other charities
The Rt. Revd Robert LeRoy Fitzpatrick

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

Operates in: Papua New Guinea · Solomon Islands · South Korea · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£155k	£156k
31/03/2024	£170k	£76k
31/03/2023	£139k	£101k
31/03/2022	£131k	£99k
31/03/2021	£137k	£63k

Common questions

Is SOCIETY OF SAINT FRANCIS CENTRAL FUND financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £125,384 for the year ended 31 March 2025, primarily driven by a loss on investment revaluation of £124,871. Despite this deficit, the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,577,130 and designated reserves of £1,377,252, which the trustees consider sufficient to continue as a going concern for at least 12 months. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
Third Order, Society of Saint Francis	1	£4k
THE W A HANDLEY CHARITY TRUST	1	£3k
ESHARELIFE FOUNDATION	1	£500

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS.

THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS income £1.3m
Third Order, Society of Saint Francis income £158k
THE COMMUNITY OF ST FRANCIS income £252k
SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART CIO income £2.4m
THE FOUNDATION OF ST. BENEDICT OF NURSIA income £238k
THE SOCIETY OF MARY (MARIST FATHERS) CIO income £789k

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
SOCIETY OF SAINT FRANCIS CENTRAL FUND	£155k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE BROTHERS OF THE FIRST ORDER OF THE SOCIETY OF ST FRANCIS FY2025	£1.3m	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
Third Order, Society of Saint Francis FY2025	£158k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
THE COMMUNITY OF ST FRANCIS FY2025	£252k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
SOCIETY OF THE SACRED HEART CIO FY2025	£2.4m	—	3	below	—	no doubt
THE FOUNDATION OF ST. BENEDICT OF NURSIA FY2024	£238k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

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