The Charing Church Fabric Trust

Analysis

The Charing Church Fabric Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Ashford. It was registered in January 1989, 37 years ago. Its declared purposes cover religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to organisations and acts as an umbrella or resource body.

In the financial year ending December 2025, The Charing Church Fabric Trust reported income of £15k and spending of £39k, spending 256% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £15k to £15k (+3.1%), an average of +0.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2024, when income dropped by 21%. Over the whole period it spent 52% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, The Charing Church Fabric Trust sits at the 29th percentile: it is larger than about 29% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Parish Room (£15k), Apostolic Lighthouse Church of Durham (£15k) and Jamiatul Rasul Association of UK (£15k).