Shrewsbury Secular Clergy Fund

Analysis

Shrewsbury Secular Clergy Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Church Stretton. It was registered in January 1964, 62 years ago. Its declared purposes cover disability and religious activities, which this site groups under disability. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Shrewsbury Secular Clergy Fund reported income of £49k and spending of £80k, spending 163% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £28k to £49k (+75%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 83%. Over the whole period it spent 148% of the income it received.

Among 12,871 England and Wales charities whose main cause is disability and that reported income, Shrewsbury Secular Clergy Fund sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 60th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Mary Hatch Almshouses with Diamond Jubilee Cottages (£49k), Wivey Kitchen CIO (£49k) and Lewes Exhibition Fund (£49k).