FELLOWSHIP OF ST JOHN (UK) TRUST ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 289862 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q137324222 · also known as COWLEY FATHERS, FSJ (UK) TA, SSJE, ST EDWARDS HOUSE

The charity gives grants to UK and foreign agencies for education and missionary work. These grants include the "Bernard Mizeki" award which funds ministry given by the laity and Father Benson scholarships, awarded to seminarians at St Stephen's House Oxford to help those engaged in higher theological study.

Objects

TO ENGAGE IN WORKS MISSIONARY AND EDUCATIONAL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST.

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

Registered contact address: Buckinghamshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds total reserves of approximately £12.8m, which the Directors consider appropriate to meet obligations and finance future grant commitments. The charity reported a net increase in unrestricted funds of £67,016 for the year, supported by investment gains, while expenditure on charitable activities and grants totaled £487,219. The auditors confirmed that the financial statements give a true and fair view and identified no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. 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 handling
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01830397

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• SUCKLING, Michaela — director, appointed 04/07/2026on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Christopher Neil, Reverend — director, appointed 04/07/2026on trustee list
• SMITH, Kevin, Reverend — director, appointed 04/07/2026on trustee list
• SPENCER, Paula Sandria — director, appointed 21/06/2024on trustee list
• BALLANCE, David Christopher — director, appointed 30/09/2021on trustee list
• CHAMBERS, John Richard, Reverend — director, appointed 16/05/2018on trustee list
• NAYLOR, Grant Lambert, Reverend — director, appointed 16/05/2018on trustee list
• ANDERSON, Stephen George — director, appointed 17/05/2012on trustee list
• CARD-REYNOLDS, Charles Leonard, The Reverend — director, appointed 11/06/2009on trustee list

Official officers record.

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/11/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (31/10/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• The Reverend Grant Lambert Naylorchair · trustee of 3 other charities
• DAVID BALLANCE · trustee of 2 other charities
• Michaela Suckling · trustee of 2 other charities
• Paula Sandria Spencer
• Rev CHARLES CARD-REYNOLDS
• Rev JOHN RICHARD CHAMBERS
• Rev Kevin Smith · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev STEPHEN GEORGE ANDERSON · trustee of 1 other charity
• The Reverend Christopher Johnson · trustee of 5 other charities

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

Operates in: Grenada · India · Saint Vincent · South Africa · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Common questions

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Side by side with its peers

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