Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 12

Multiple Deficits: -2

Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +12

Overall GiG Score: 16

THE NATIONAL CHURCHES TRUST

The Charity's objects are to promote the conservation, repair, maintenance, improvement, upkeep, beautification and reconstruction of churches in the United Kingdom and of monuments, fittings, fixtures, stained glass, furniture, ornaments, organs, bells in such churches; and to promote the building, enlargement and development of churches in the United Kingdom.

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 17 years

www.nationalchurchestrust.org

info@nationalchurchestrust.org

02072220605

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/12/22		£2,819	£2,924	£-106	£442	£6,005	£2,552	10.5	16	1
31/12/21		£6,547	£6,395	£152	£441	£6,822	£2,595	4.9	15	3
31/12/20		£2,130	£2,773	£-643	£540	£5,952	£2,671	11.6	14	3
31/12/19		£2,272	£2,330	£-58	£633	£6,366	£3,413	17.6	14	5
31/12/18		£2,419	£2,383	£36	£620	£5,686	£3,125	15.7	16	6
31/12/17		£2,343	£2,662	£-319	£346	£5,742	£2,843	12.8	15	0
31/12/16		£1,590	£2,309	£-719	£331	£5,720	£1,549	8.1	14	0
31/12/15		£2,532	£2,068	£464	£288	£6,053	£1,260	7.3	11	0
31/12/14		£1,410	£1,720	£-310	£265	£4,233	£818	5.7	11	0
31/12/13		£1,665	£1,916	£-251	£260	£4,358	£618	3.9	11	0
31/12/12		£2,147	£1,521	£626	£229	£4,179	£243	1.9	10	0
31/12/11		£1,424	£1,777	£-352	£238	£3,381	£205	1.4	9	0
31/12/10		£1,509	£2,273	£-764	£397	£3,865	£107	0.6	12	0
31/12/09	*	£1,895	£2,713	£-817	£286	£4,449	£127	0.6	8	0
31/12/08	*	£1,895	£120	£1,775	£247	£4,518	£105	10.5	9	0
31/12/07		£137	£118	£19	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 17.2%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 15.1%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 3%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 30%
Liabilities/Income: 90%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 43%
Reserves/Spending: 10.5 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 1 months
Quick Ratio: 0.5

Asset Split ?

Listed activities

Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
Environment/Conservation/Heritage

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations
Provides services

Where it operates

Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,

Who it helps

The General Public/Mankind

Who works here?

16 employees
1 volunteer

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years

Wolfson Foundation	£2,266,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund	£2,157,690
The Pilgrim Trust	£1,410,000
Dulverton Trust	£900,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Dulverton Trust - Grants for churches
£450,000	26/10/2023	Grants for churches
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£300	20/03/2023	to support and maintain historic churches
Foundation Scotland - Grant to National Churches Trust
£600	27/02/2023	Donation from Douglas McDougall Fund
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The National Churches Trust
£1,909,490	19/12/2022	Places of Worship Strategic Capacity Building Project
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£1,236,000	08/06/2022 36	Joint programme to fund historic fabric repairs for churches (three years)
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£300	20/04/2022	to support and maintain historic churches
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£780,000	09/11/2021 12	Church Support Maintenance Programme: promoting maintenance and funding preventative maintenance and proactive small repairs in historic churches
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£75,000	24/06/2021 36	The Nayler Awards for Excellence in Church Maintenance
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£300	15/03/2021	to support and maintain historic churches
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant (restricted) for distribution as grants by the National Churches Trust
£260,000	27/11/2020 12	National Churches Trust Grant Fund for Church Support Maintenance Programme: promoting maintenance and funding preventative maintenance and proactive small repairs in historic churches.
Dulverton Trust - Grants to churches
£450,000	21/10/2020	Grants to churches
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£25,000	05/05/2020 10	Awards for excellence in maintenance planning at listed places of worship
Essex Community Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£300	03/04/2020	To support and maintain historic churches
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Churches Trust
£248,200	03/03/2020	Treasure Ireland
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to National Churches Trust
£1,030,000	05/12/2019 36	Joint programme to fund historic fabric repairs for churches (three years)
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£10,000	13/11/2019 43	National Churches Trust/Pilgrim Maintenance Awards
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£200,000	19/09/2019 12	Church Support Maintenance Programme: promoting maintenance and funding preventative maintenance and proactive small repairs in historic churches.
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£60,000	19/09/2019 36	Treasure Ireland; improving the maintenance and sustainability of historic places of worship in Northern Ireland
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Churches Trust
£7,700	21/02/2019	Lincolnshire Wolds Churches Festival
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to National Churches Trust
£200,000	13/09/2018 12	Church Support Grants Programme: funding preventative maintenance and proactive small repairs in historic churches
DCMS - Attracting Faith Visitors to England
£105,720	31/08/2018	This project aims to develop a bookable product based on the theme faith tourism. It will join together the work being delivered in silo across England and create itineraries which will become ....more This project aims to develop a bookable product based on the theme faith tourism. It will join together the work being delivered in silo across England and create itineraries which will become internationally appealing within the faith tourism theme.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Churches Trust
£48,800	23/01/2018	ExploreChurches: Great Interpretations
Dulverton Trust - Restoration and Community Grants 2018-20
£275,000	24/10/2017	Restoration and Community Grants 2018-20
Joseph Rank Trust - National Churches Trust
£10,000	27/07/2017	To help fund the Maintenance Booker Phase 2 project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to National Churches Trust
£90,100	15/06/2016	Yorkshire Maintenance Project
Dulverton Trust - Restoration and Community Grants
£225,000	22/10/2014	Restoration and Community Grants

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How is it governed?

Trustees (11)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Trustees: 56-81

CATHERINE DONNA MCDONALD Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Writer, Fundraiser & Project Manager

CATHERINE MARIE PEPINSTER Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Writer, Other trusteeship: KALEIDOSCOPE PROJECT,

DR STEPHEN SKLAROFF Appointed: 2018, Occupation: Director General

DR NIGEL HUGH WALTER Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Architect, Other trusteeships: THE CAMBRIDGE THEOLOGICAL FEDERATION, Cogwheel Counselling,

GERALD MICHAEL NOLAN CORBETT Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Business Person, Other trusteeship: THE CORBETT FAMILY CHARITABLE TRUST,

HENRY JULIAN AGLIONBY STANFORD Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Director

REV LUCY WINKETT Appointed: 2017, Occupation: Anglican Priest, Other trusteeship: SOHO CHILD 2000,

SARAH LESLEY STEWART OBE DL Appointed: 2021, Other trusteeship: THE BEAMISH DEVELOPMENT TRUST,

SHIRLEY ADAMS JP Appointed: 2019, Occupation: Retired, Other trusteeship: MANCHESTER RELIEF IN NEED CIO,

SIR PAUL JOHN JAMES BRITTON CB CVO Appointed: 2015, Other trusteeships: THE FRIENDS OF KENT CHURCHES, TONBRIDGE CIVIC SOCIETY,

SIR PHILIP MCDOUGALL RUTNAM KCB Appointed: 2022, Other trusteeship: THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL PARISH OF THE BARNSBURY TEAM MINISTRY,

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 27/06/2007, number: 1119845
Registered at Companies House on 31/05/2007, number: 06265201

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Conflicting interests
Investment
Paying staff
Risk management
Volunteer management

Filing Record

16 returns made; AR09: 9 days late, AR08: 11 days late,

Recent reorganisation events:

Asset transfer in from IVINGHOE WESLEYAN REFORM CHURCH on 11/12/2023

Main office

National Churches Trust
7 Tufton Street
LONDON
SW1P 3QB

Objectives

4.1 TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, UPKEEP, BEAUTIFICATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OF MONUMENTS, FITTINGS, FIXTURES, STAINED GLASS, FURNITURE, ORNAMENTS, ORGANS, BELLS AND CHATTELS IN SUCH CHURCHES, AND OF THE CHURCHYARD BELONGING TO ANY OF SUCH CHURCHES; 4.2 TO PROMOTE THE BUILDING, ENLARGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHURCHES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM; 4.3 TO PROMOTE THE CAPACITY OF CHURCHES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO PROVIDE PUBLIC BENEFIT, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF ADVICE, ASSISTANCE, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND OTHER SUPPORT; AND 4.4 TO PROMOTE FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THE KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYMENT OF CHURCHES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, INCLUDING THROUGH THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND OTHER SERVICES AND FACILITIES FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. FOR THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE 4, “UNITED KINGDOM” SHALL INCLUDE THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

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