The English Clergy Association Benefit Fund

Analysis

The English Clergy Association Benefit Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Windsor. It was registered in April 1970, 56 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the prevention or relief of poverty and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to individuals.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The English Clergy Association Benefit Fund reported income of £46k and spending of £57k, spending 123% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £32k to £46k (+43%), an average of +9.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income rose by 1217%. Over the whole period it spent 28% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, The English Clergy Association Benefit 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 59th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Manse in Connexion with Mill Road Baptist Church (£46k), Train(Kenya) (£46k) and St.peters Non-Ecclesiastical Charities (£46k).