THE NATIONAL SOCIETY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND CHURCH IN WALES) FOR THE PROMOTION OF EDUCATION

Registered charity 313070 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE NATIONAL SOCIETY, THE NATIONAL SOCIETY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND) FOR PROMOTING RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

The objects of the Society shall be the promotion, encouragement and support of education in accordance with the principles of the Church of England, in England and Wales, and in any other part of the world where the Church of England or churches in communion with it may work.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves totalled £12,203,288, which is above the trustees' stated policy target of between £2.3m and £4.7m. The charity reported a net expenditure for the year but maintains adequate resources to meet spending commitments for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Bishop of Ely — Chair of the National Society Council (source)
• Revd Nigel Genders — Chief Education Officer (source)
• Archbishop of Canterbury — President of The National Society (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~19.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other trading activities (56% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (28/02/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Bishop Jonathan Frost
• Canon Dr Addy Lazz-Onyenobi · trustee of 4 other charities
• Canon Rachel Howie
• Christopher Robert Penn · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Grahame Davies
• Jean Noel Ezingeard
• MARION PLANT
• REVD CANON PETER BALLARD
• ROSEMARY JANE LYON
• Rev Mary Stallard
• Sonia Thompson · trustee of 2 other charities
• The Ven Douglas James Dettmer · trustee of 2 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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 CYNGOR YSGOLION SUL AC ADDYSG GRISTNOGOL CYMRU.

• CYNGOR YSGOLION SUL AC ADDYSG GRISTNOGOL CYMRU income £155k
• NORWICH CHURCH OF ENGLAND YOUNG MEN'S SOCIETY income £323k
• SCHOENSTATT MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND AND WALES income £160k
• THE PETERBOROUGH SCHOOL LIMITED income £8.2m
• STAR EDUCATION SOCIETY income £138k
• CHURCH SOCIETY income £301k

Side by side with its peers

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