Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF ST STEPHEN CANONBURY

St Stephen's Church is the parish church for Canonbury in the London Borough of Islington, within the Stepney Area of the Anglican Diocese of London. The public services and worship of the church put Christian faith into practice through prayer, scripture, music, sacrament and two specialist ministries: The Manna, serving homeless and marginalised people, and Urban Hope, serving young people.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£349£375£-27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£314£332£-17n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£449£451£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£411£376£35n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£451£468£-16n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18*£615£630£-15£0£259£671.360
31/12/17£473£441£31n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/16£473£441£32n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/15£256£209£47n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/14*£409£388£21n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/13£417£418£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/12£361£364£-3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/11£349£335£14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/10£369£346£24n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 15 years

www.ststephenscanonbury.org.uk

administrator@ststephenscanonbury.org.uk

02072267526

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Religious Activities
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Islington,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Cloudesley£465,950
Cripplegate Foundation£75,962
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
Cheshire Community Foundation£5,000
CAF£5,000
Co-Operative Group£3,977
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen's Canonbury
£85,000 21/05/2024
Replacement of the broken boiler and inefficient heating system with an effective solution that supports carbon-neutral goals.
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen's Canonbury
£25,700 21/05/2024
Replacement of the broken boiler and inefficient heating system with an effective solution that supports carbon-neutral goals.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£2,000 04/04/2024
Islington Food Fund grants
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen's Canonbury
£6,500 21/12/2023
Urgent repair grant towards roof repairs
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£105,000 06/12/2023
Principal Grant Round 1 renewal
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen's Canonbury
£8,750 21/11/2023
Replace leaking roof in area affecting Sunday School and after-church refreshments
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Manna
£1,563 21/10/2023
We'd like to offer activities to homeless and marginalised people to improve their mental wellbeing via art, poetry, gardening, walking, and singing.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 19/09/2023
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2024
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£10,000 14/06/2023
Mental Wellbeing
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen's Church, Canonbury
£65,000 06/06/2023
Electric heating system for church and halls to replace existing gas boiler. The project in 2 phases - 1 upgrading power supply, design for heating controls, installing power to heating panels - 2 supply + install heating panels
London Catalyst - The Manna (St Stephen's Church) - 9
£1,000 07/02/2023
Hardship Fund
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£2,667 25/01/2023
Islington Food Fund grants
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£5,000 10/01/2023
Islington Giving Crisis Appeal
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£3,360 04/01/2023
Cost of living increase
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen Canonbury
£2,500 13/12/2022
Urgent repair grant towards a temporary heating solution
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 07/12/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H9313
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£2,500 27/09/2022
Principal Grant - cost of living uplift. Related grant: 360G-Cloudesley-H9313
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 27/09/2022
Cloudesley Partner welfare grant 2023
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£60,000 08/12/2021
PGF Round 1 Extension Funding - Tackling health inequalities among marginalised people
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Manna
£2,414 23/10/2021
We'd like to improve the lives of vulnerable local people through practical help in our day centre.
Cheshire Community Foundation - Wellbeing activities
£5,000 21/10/2021
The Manna is a project for homeless and marginalised people. The project we are applying for is to run a number of wellbeing activity groups: gardening, poetry, art, singing, walking. The grant funding would be used to pay for the facilitation and ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 21/09/2021
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2022 - Awarded Sep 2021
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To The Manna
£50,385 19/05/2021
Coordinator salary
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 09/04/2021
Urban Hope
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen Canonbury
£60,000 24/11/2020
Stonework repairs to the spire
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 22/09/2020
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant 2021 - Awarded Sep 2020
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To Urban Hope
£2,550 01/07/2020
Main grant extension
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen Canonbury
£5,000 29/06/2020
Purchase of AV equipment to enable live streaming of services
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Urban Hope, St Stephen's Church
£2,459 17/06/2020
COVID19 - To provide online support and activity packs for young women who live in areas of deprivation and have experienced isolation due to the impact of Covid-19. The intervention will improve their confidence and aid good mental health.
CAF - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 22/05/2020
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Grant to The Manna to support the organisation through COVID19
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen Canonbury
£5,000 19/05/2020
The cost of preliminary works to secure a specification, tenders and DAC permission for essential work to repair the church tower.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£10,000 31/03/2020
Emergency small grant- Initial additional staff costs plus items to help support vulnerable clients through a period of extended isolation
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Manna
£6,161 15/11/2019
We want to run group activities to reduce isolation and enhance lives of homeless and marginalised people.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 24/09/2019
Cloudesley Partner Welfare Grant Awarded Sep 2019
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£90,000 05/06/2019
Principal Grant - Tackling health inequalities among marginalised people
Cloudesley - Grant to St Stephen Canonbury
£43,000 27/11/2018
SCBP Large Grant- Installation of solar panels and LED lighting in the church. These actions would cut our running costs, reduce our carbon footprint, and address current safety issues with our old church lighting.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£5,000 19/09/2018
Interim Welfare Grant (awarded Sep 2018)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Parochial Church Council Of The Ecclesiastical Parish Of St Stephen Canonbury
£5,721 29/11/2017
We need equipment and a gardener to make Canonbury Gardens a beautiful place through the stewardship of homeless and marginalised people.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Urban Hope, St Stephen's Church
£95,125 17/10/2017
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Youth clubs, workshops and mentoring for young women whose experiences include homelessness, sexual exploitation, abusive relationships and gangs. They will be more emotionally resilient and reduce harmful activities.
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£4,513 19/09/2017
Cloudesley Partner Grant (awarded Sep 2017)
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£4,964 21/09/2016
Cloudesley Partner Grant (Awarded Sep 2016)
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£59,700 02/03/2016
Wellbeing project
Cloudesley - Grant to The Manna
£2,568 15/09/2015
Cloudesley Partner Grant (Awarded Sep 15)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (12)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 11/12 persons

  • BENJAMIN HUSSAR Appointed: 2024
  • DAVID TITMAS Appointed: 2023
  • ELIZABETH JANE EVANS Appointed: 2018
  • JOHN CREYKE Appointed: 2021
  • JOY FAULKNER-MPEHO Appointed: 2019
  • LEONARD JOHN CHALKLEY Appointed: 2018
  • MARGARET ELIZABETH EVANS Appointed: 2024
  • MARY THOMAS Appointed: 2018
  • RALPH DUNHAM Appointed: 2017
  • RUFIN BATOTA-MPEHO Appointed: 2023
  • SARAH STRANG Appointed: 2018
  • TIMOTHY MULLER Appointed: 2020
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 25/09/2009, number: 1131839
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
14 returns made; AR18: 7 days late, AR14: 16 days late,
Main office

The Parish Church Of St. Stephens
17 Canonbury Road
LONDON
N1 2DF

Objectives

Promoting in the ecclesiastical parish the whole mission of the Church.

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNDEFINED. IN PRACTICE, LOCAL.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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