The Oswald Chambers Publications Association Limited

Analysis

The Oswald Chambers Publications Association Limited is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Leeds. It was registered in December 1967, 59 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable company (Companies House number 00372845). It says it makes grants to organisations.

In the financial year ending September 2025, The Oswald Chambers Publications Association Limited reported income of £90k and spending of £117k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2021 to September 2025, income grew from £58k to £90k (+55%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 34%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Oswald Chambers Publications Association Limited sits at the 60th percentile: it is larger than about 60% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Shatnez Centre Trust (£90k), The Parochial Church Council of the Ecclesiastical Parish of St Michael and All Angels, Broadway,worcester (£90k) and Grace Life Church Ltd (£90k).

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.