Secular Clergy New Common Fund

Analysis

Secular Clergy New Common Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in August 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Secular Clergy New Common Fund reported income of £99k and spending of £86k, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £52k to £99k (+90%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 213%. Over the whole period it spent 105% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Secular Clergy New Common Fund sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Vedanta Bidyashram (£99k), Frenkel Topping Charitable Foundation (£99k) and The Atherton Family Charitable Trust (£99k).