The Anglo-Catholic Ordination Candidates Fund

Analysis

The Anglo-Catholic Ordination Candidates Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in East Sussex. It was registered in December 1963, 63 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and religious activities, which this site groups under religion. It says it makes grants to individuals and makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Anglo-Catholic Ordination Candidates Fund reported income of £102k and spending of £173k, spending 171% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £93k to £102k (+8.7%), an average of +2.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 160% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Anglo-Catholic Ordination Candidates Fund sits at the 62nd percentile: it is larger than about 62% 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 The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St.augustines, Gillingham, Kent (£102k), Tilbury Education and Cultural Association (£102k) and Pcea UK Outreach (£102k).

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.