The Parochial Church Council of the United Parish of Chinnor, Sydenham, Aston Rowant and Crowell

Analysis

The Parochial Church Council of the United Parish of Chinnor, Sydenham, Aston Rowant and Crowell is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Oxfordshire. It was registered in June 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. It says it makes grants to organisations and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Parochial Church Council of the United Parish of Chinnor, Sydenham, Aston Rowant and Crowell reported income of £146k and spending of £189k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income fell from £227k to £146k (-36%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 1,223 England and Wales charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Parochial Church Council of the United Parish of Chinnor, Sydenham, Aston Rowant and Crowell sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Saint Ambrose, Leyland, Lancashire (£146k), Zimbabwe Educational Trust (£146k) and The Paigham-E-Islam Trust Britain (Jamiat Al-Dawah Al-Islamiah Britania) (£144k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.