THE CHURCH TENEMENTS CHARITIES: EDUCATIONAL AND CHURCH BRANCHES

Registered charity 312554 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as CHURCH TENEMENTS TRUST, THE CHURCH TENEMENTS, EDUCATIONAL BRANCH · filing overdue (register status)

The charity provides one-off, small, grants for educational purposes to young people under the age of 25 years either resident within, or studying at an establishment within, the London Borough of Croydon. Grants are awarded to those demonstrating financial hardship, for items such as books, stationery, uniforms, travel to and from school/college, school trips and music tuition and instruments.

Objects

PROVISION OF SCHOLARSHIPS, BURSARIES OR MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES, PURCHASE OF OUTFITS, TOOLS, INSTRUMENTS OR BOOKS FOR BENEFICIARIES ENTERING A TRADE OR PROFESSION. TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS. PROVISIONS OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES. ONE HALF OF ANNUAL INCOME MAY BE PAID BY THE TRUSTEE FOR THE SUPPORT OF ARCHBISHOP TENISON'S SCHOOL.

Area of benefit: PARISH OF CROYDON

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total net assets increased from £905,794 to £925,780 over the period. The independent examiner confirmed that the accounting records were kept in accordance with the Charities Act and the accounts complied with applicable regulations.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 4 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2023 (received 06/02/2025, 191 days after the 30/07/2024 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 12/01/2024, 346 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 19/03/2023, 412 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

1 further annual return is past its due date with no recorded received date (Charity Commission register).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rev Canon Dr Andrew Scott Bishopchair
• COUNCILLOR JASON PERRY
• Councillor Madelaine Rachel Henson
• Henrietta Ansong · trustee of 3 other charities
• Stephen Willmer

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

Operates in: Croydon

Income and spending

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• CLINGAN'S TRUST income £89k
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• THE EDUCATIONAL CHARITY OF JOHN MATTHEWS income £26k
• THE FRANCIS BERNARD CAUNT EDUCATION TRUST income £63k
• ALVECHURCH EDUCATIONAL TRUST income £27k

Side by side with its peers

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