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The Church Fields Charity

RegisteredRegistered charity number 217211KentReligion
Income£146k2025-12-31
Spending£71ksame year
Spent / received50%5-year average
Size in its cause71st pctReligion
Registered1963Other
Employees–latest return

Analysis

The Church Fields Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Kent. It was registered in May 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, amateur sport and recreation, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides buildings/facilities/open space and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Church Fields Charity reported income of £146k and spending of £71k, leaving 52% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £66k to £146k (+122%), an average of +22% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 391%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Church Fields Charity sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% 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 Christ Gospel Church International (£146k), Manchester Pentecostal Church (£146k) and The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, Caversham (£146k).

Income and spending

£0£81k£161k£242k£323k2021 Income: £65,6962021 Spending: £49,26620212022 Income: £322,8692022 Spending: £42,10120222023 Income: £77,0372023 Spending: £96,09920232024 Income: £82,5852024 Spending: £88,78920242025 Income: £145,9132025 Spending: £70,6842025
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Where the income comes from

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In the charity's own words

The Charity's principal objective is the repair and maintenance of the fabric of the parish church of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St George, Beckenham, and, after that, furthering the religious and other charitable work of the Church of England in the said ecclesiastical parish.

Similar-sized charities, same cause

CharityLocationIncome
Christ Gospel Church InternationalEssex£146k
Manchester Pentecostal ChurchManchester£146k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Andrew, CavershamReading£146k
The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Mary the Virgin and St Chad, BrewoodStafford£146k