01 Identity
Registration and reporting
- Registration status
- Registered
- Reporting status
- Submission Received
- Charity type
- Other
- Registered
- 13 September 1966
- Removed
- Not supplied
- Financial period
- 1 January 2024 – 31 December 2024
- Latest income
- £87,326
- Latest expenditure
- £99,736
- Gift Aid
- Yes
- Owns or uses land
- No
- In administration
- No
- Insolvent
- No
- CIO
- No
Public contact address: c/.o The Additional Curates Society, 16 Commercial Street, BIRMINGHAM, B1 1RS
Website recorded by the regulator: www.churchunion.co.uk (displayed as text)
02 Activities
What the charity does
The Charity publishes an in-house magazine The Church Observer, the magazine "Together", sponsors a number of annual lectures, operates a Website, publishes books under its Tufton Books imprint and seeks to uphold Catholic doctrine, worship, order and discipline in the Church, by renewing and extending Catholic faith and practice in the Church of England and elsewhere.
03 Official extract
Charity Annual Return History
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Date Annual Return Received
- 9 October 2025
- Date Accounts Received
- 9 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £87,326
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £99,736
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Date Annual Return Received
- 17 October 2024
- Date Accounts Received
- 17 October 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £95,688
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £116,352
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Date Annual Return Received
- 13 September 2023
- Date Accounts Received
- 13 September 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £98,181
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £64,856
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2021
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2022
- Date Annual Return Received
- 22 November 2022
- Date Accounts Received
- 22 November 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £98,181
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £64,856
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2020
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2020
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR20
- Reporting Due Date
- 31 October 2021
- Date Annual Return Received
- 8 October 2021
- Date Accounts Received
- 8 October 2021
- Total Gross Income
- £105,614
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £99,886
04 Official extract
Charity Annual Return Parta
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- Yes
- Fin Period Order Number
- 1
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR24
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2024
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2024
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2025
- Ar Received Date
- 9 October 2025
- Total Gross Income
- £87,326
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £99,736
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 4
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 2
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR23
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2023
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2023
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2024
- Ar Received Date
- 17 October 2024
- Total Gross Income
- £95,688
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £116,352
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Count Govt Contracts
- 0
- Count Govt Grants
- £0
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Payments Acting As Trustee
- No
- Trustee Receives Payments Services
- No
- Trustee Receives Other Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 10
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 3
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR22
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2022
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2022
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2023
- Ar Received Date
- 13 September 2023
- Total Gross Income
- £98,181
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £64,856
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 4
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR21
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2021
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2021
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2022
- Ar Received Date
- 22 November 2022
- Total Gross Income
- £98,181
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £64,856
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
- Latest Fin Period Submitted Ind
- No
- Fin Period Order Number
- 5
- Ar Cycle Reference
- AR20
- Fin Period Start Date
- 1 January 2020
- Fin Period End Date
- 31 December 2020
- Ar Due Date
- 31 October 2021
- Ar Received Date
- 8 October 2021
- Total Gross Income
- £105,614
- Total Gross Expenditure
- £99,886
- Charity Raises Funds From Public
- No
- Grant Making Is Main Activity
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Contracts
- No
- Charity Receives Govt Funding Grants
- No
- Charity Has Trading Subsidiary
- No
- Does Trustee Receive Any Benefit
- No
- Trustee Resigned Employment
- No
- Employees Salary Over 60k
- No
- Count Volunteers
- 0
05 Official extract
Charity Area Of Operation
- Geographic Area Type
- Region
- Geographic Area Description
- Throughout England And Wales
- Welsh Ind
- No
06 Official extract
Charity Classification
- Classification Code
- 207
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- The General Public/mankind
- Classification Code
- 206
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Other Defined Groups
- Classification Code
- 307
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
- Classification Code
- 102
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Education/training
- Classification Code
- 309
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Acts As An Umbrella Or Resource Body
- Classification Code
- 306
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Provides Services
- Classification Code
- 115
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity
- Classification Code
- 201
- Classification Type
- Who
- Classification Description
- Children/young People
- Classification Code
- 108
- Classification Type
- What
- Classification Description
- Religious Activities
- Classification Code
- 302
- Classification Type
- How
- Classification Description
- Makes Grants To Organisations
07 Official extract
Charity Event History
- Charity Name
- GENERAL TRUST FUND OF THE CHURCH UNION
- Charity Event Order
- 1
- Event Type
- Standard registration
- Date Of Event
- 1966-09-13T00:00:00
08 Official extract
Charity Governing Document
- Governing Document Description
- DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 7TH MAY 1934 AS AMENDED BY SCHEME DATED 9 JANUARY 2008
- Charitable Objects
- A) TO DEFEND AND MAINTAIN UNIMPAIRED THE DOCTRINE DISCIPLINE AND POSITION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WHOLE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF CHRIST;B) TO PROMOTE STUDY AND RESEARCH AND THE DISSEMINATION OF LITERATURE IN ALL BRANCHES OF THEOLOGY AND ETHICS, AND IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS OF PHILOSOPHY, SOCIOLOGY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND NATURAL SCIENCES WHICH ARE CLOSELY RELATED TO RELIGION;(FOR FULLER DETAILS SEE DECLARATION OF TRUST DATED 7TH MAY 1934)
- Area Of Benefit
- UNRESTRICTED
09 Official extract
Charity Other Names
- Charity Name Id
- 246093
- Charity Name Type
- Previous name
- Charity Name
- THE CHURCH UNION
10 Official extract
Charity Policy
- Policy Name
- Conflicting interests
- Policy Name
- Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Complaints policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Safeguarding policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee expenses policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Investment
- Policy Name
- Investing charity funds policy and procedures
- Policy Name
- Financial reserves policy and procedures